"In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.” - Ishmael Beah
“All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.” -Brennan Manning
“One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.” -Brennan Manning-
“As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”-- Sir Norman Wisdom
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“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.
Ayn Rand
“In this life we are all just walking up the mountain, and we can sing as we climb or we can complain about our sore feet. Whichever we choose, we still gotta do the hike. I decided a long time ago singing made a lot more sense.”- Author Unknown
"O my God, Thou art love and canst no more cease to be so than to be Thyself. Take Thy own methods with us, and submit us to them. Well may we do so in an assurance that the beginning, the way, and the end of them all is love. I must believe then that Thy grace will super-abound wherever sin hath most abounded.” -Jeremiah White-
No atonement is necessary to him [God] but that men should leave their sins and come back to his heart.
—George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons III.160
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All your life you have been straining every nerve, every bone to fit into expectations of your impure mind and blind society chasing dog’s tail. Only a calm mind has the power to tell you what you need, how much, how long, and finally the one and only source of perennial bliss which is nowhere but only NOW and HERE.
Gratitude only gratitude!
~~Bodhi
“What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God’s love, a love we don’t even have to earn.” -Madeleine L’Engle-
“Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.”-- Rachel Marie Martin
If Love Omnipotent doesn’t save all, is it because He can’t or doesn’t want to?
“I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.”― Craig Ferguson
There MUST be a vid of Z’s riverdancing??
THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about! Almost as good as the Monster Mash!
“In the depth of every living religion there is a point at which the religion itself loses its importance, and that to which it points breaks through its particularity, elevating it to spiritual freedom and with it to a vision of the spiritual presence in other expressions of the ultimate meaning of man’s existence"
Fundamentalism fails to make contact with the present situation, not because it speaks from beyond every situation, but because it speaks from a situation of the past. It elevates something finite and transitory to infinite and eternal validity. In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware". Tillich
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