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Pastor Jeff's Favorite Quotes : an eclectic
collection of thought provoking, challenging, humorous, and sometimes stupid
things people say. Some will make you think, some will make you laugh,
some will make you shake your head in disbelief, some may change your life
(if you let them). Each month I choose another list of my favorite
quotes. There are also pages of favorite quotes listed according to topic.
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"If you read three chapters of
scripture each weekday and five chapters on Sunday, you can read from
Genesis to Revelation in a year. You should never be so busy that
youcan't read the Bible that much. Yet some Christians read only parts
of chapters or favorite chapters or favorite books of the Bible. What
would you think if your friend read only certain paragraphs of your
letter? You don't know the whole Word of God unless you read all of it
regularly." --Wesley Duewel--
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Brokenness "God rarely uses a man greatly until he hurts a man deeply." --A.W. Tozer-- |
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"I believe that most believers must go through a period of breaking as they come truly to know God's grace. Isn't that what our faith is about--we must know the wretchedness of our sinful state before we turn to the Lord for the rescue." --Chuck Colson--
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| Burnout One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess--the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have: it merely reveals the nothingsness from which I was trying to give in the first place." --Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, 49--
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| Church Attendance "Sunday feels odd without church in the morning. It's the time in the week when we take our bearings, and if we miss it, we're just following our noses." Garrison Keillor ("Visiting Lake Wobegone," The Lutheran, Feb 2002--quoted in Eugene Peterson's Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places)
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Complaining "Nothing is easier than fault-finding; no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are required to set-up in the grumbling business." --Robert West--
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquantance, or a stranger." --Franklin Jones--
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing shound they make as they go flying by.
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"Depression is the ultimate state of disconnection, not only between people, and between mind and heart, but between one's self-image and public mask." --Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, 62.--
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"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --General Omar Bradley--
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"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
--George Burns--
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." --Albert Einstein--
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The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." --Andrew Brown--
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"If we are to live our lives fully and
well, we must learn to embrace the opposites, to live in a creative
tension between our limits and our potentials. We must honor our
limitations in ways that do not distort our nature, and we must trust
and use our gifts in ways that fulfill the potentials God gave us." Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, 55
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." --Rita Mae Brown--
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"Workers earn it, spendthrifts burn it, Bankers lend it, Women spend it, Forgers fake it, Taxes take it, Dying leaves it, Heirs receive it, Thrifty save it, Misers crave it, Robbers seize it, Rich increaseit, Gamblers lose it... I could use it." --Richard Armour--
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""Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world." --David Brainerd--
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"The secret ot life is to have a task...something you bring everything to..And the most important thing is --it must be something you cannot possibly do." --Henry Moore, sculptor--
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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness" --Margaret Atwood--
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A Revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God." --Charles Finney--
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"No sin is small. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch." --Jeremy Taylor--
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Spiritual Hunger "I want
deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it
has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality
about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire." --A.W. Tozer--
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"It's hard to solve the problems of the world when you can't even make it through the next day." --Richard Swenson--
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"Death and taxes aren't the only sure things anymore, stress has become an inevitable part of life for most people." --Richard Turbo-- (Quoted in Margin by Richard Swenson, p. 26. From an article in Medical World News, January 26, 1987. p. 26)
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"Mission conscious teamplayers who have committed themselves to a team allow the leader of the team to do the leading. Any time a team member hinders the leader, it increases the possibility that the team will be hindered in its goals. For a team to win, the leader must be allowed to lead." --John Maxwell-- 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, 93.
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"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely." --T.S. Eliot--
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"As one medieval saying has it, 'God draws straight lines with a crooked stick.' He can and does work with us, whatever the moral and spiritual condition in which he finds us. God, we realize, does some of his best work using the most unlikely people." --Eugene Peterson-- |
| Work and Worship "Work doesn't take us away from God; it continues the work of God through us. Sabbath and work are not in opposition; Sabbath and work are integrated parts of an organic whole. Either apart from the other is crippled." Eugene Peterson (Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, 115) |
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