"When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience."

-- N. T. Wright

#Thanksgiving Quotes #Christian Quotes #Gratitude Quotes

“Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.”

Source : James W. Sire (2000). “Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling”, p.215, InterVarsity Press
“Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”

Source : Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr
“What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?”
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
“I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.”
“Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.”
“I get really frustrated if people don't smile.”
“It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.”

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