I think most Christians hear these urgent calls to do more (or feel them internally already) and learn to live with a low-level guilt that comes from not doing enough. We know we can always pray more and give more and evangelize more, so we get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves. Kevin DeYoung
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or...
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Fred Rogers
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over...
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Thomas Moore
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
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Kaui Hart Hemmings
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Henry David Thoreau
More Quotes By Kevin DeYoung
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.
The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.
And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for...
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
