And So Do These Quotes
Posted in Academic Pursuits and tagged with Bible, Christianity, Reading on March 1, 2009“Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.” – Psalm 141:3, NASU
“And is not the reason perhaps for our countless relapses and the feebleness of our Christian obedience to be found precisely in the fact that we are living on self-forgiveness and not a real forgiveness? Self-forgiveness can never lead to a breach with sin; this can be accomplished only by the judging and pardoning Word of God itself.” – Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 116
“Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.” – Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, p. 166
“…if you are paying attention, each successive year will make you more intimately acquainted with all your flaws–the blind spots, the recurring habits of thought that may be genetic or may be environmental, but that will almost certainly worsen with time, as surely as the hitch in your walk truns to pain in your hip.” – The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, p. 5
“Every book worth reading beckons with the words, ‘Think over what I say.’ ” – Future Grace by John Piper, p. 16
“I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.” – Paris Geller, Gilmore Girls, “To Live and Let Diorama”
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March 1st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
My goal is not to puke too!
♥
Joy
March 1st, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I loved the last one and the quote from Velvet Elvis.
Simple post yet WAY inspiring. I hope you have a great week!
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 am
I love that there is “spiritual reasoning” in the Gilmore Girls :)
March 17th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
That may be the most truly eclectic assortment of authors I’ve ever seen quoted in one post.