The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

Rob Bell
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  2. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. - Mahatma Gandhi

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  4. If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. - Roopleen

  5. Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something... - C. Joybell C.

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  1. Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

  2. The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

  3. Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You...

  4. As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive, " or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These...

  5. Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

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