"Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God."

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Source : Mark Buchanan (2009). “The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God”, p.26, Multnomah

Mark Buchanan

“Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.”
“It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.”

Source : "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.
“To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.”

Source : "Ideas & Trends; The Quotations of Chairman Helms: Race, God, AIDS and More" by Kevin Sack, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2001.
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).”
“Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.”
“In the art world, Monet means money.”
“The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh”

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