The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to...
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Vance Havner
What is the scent of water?"" Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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Elizabeth Goudge
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
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Stanley Kunitz
If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
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Michael Sims
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring...
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Daniel Abraham
More Quotes By Gary Zukav
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine...
Artists are often the barometers of society.
Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.
