"No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy."

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Sinclair B. Ferguson

#Spiritual Quotes #Children Quotes #Character Quotes

“I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck”
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press
“Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.”
“I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.”
“Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.”
“It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.”
“Whatâ€™s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you donâ€™t change whatâ€™s on the inside,were it really counts ?”
“My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The difference between BBC, ITV and CNN on the one hand and the channels from Belgium, Germany and France on the other was stark and disturbing. The 'coalition' output, which strongly influences public opinion in Britain, comprises reports from 'embedded' reporters telling us about the mud and dust, press conferences by generals describing the tip of the iceberg they wanted us to see and studio debates among armchair pundits.”

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