"Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him."

-- J. D. Greear

#Jesus Quotes #Renounce Quotes #Adore Quotes

“My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.”

Source : Harold Brodkey (2013). “Women and Angels: Stories”, p.26, Open Road Media
“You cant reduce me to a set of influences.”
“What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing out but then pulling in.”
“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.”

Source : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
“My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.”
“It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.”
“As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.”
“The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"”

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