"God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called."

-- Smith Wigglesworth

“I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.”
“I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you werenâ€™t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.”
“You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.”
“The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different wayâ€¦. the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it,”

Source : Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”
“Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.”
“After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.”

Source : Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.
“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.”

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