"St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. Preachers, are you listening? We have for too long ruptured people's minds with facts rather than raptured their souls with mystery."
- Flannery O'Connor
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"We must beware in our attitude toward people who are suffering that we do not blunder by imagining our point of view to be the only one."
- Oswald Chambers, in Baffled to Fight Better
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"Everywhere else in the world, loveliness precedes love. Only in the Gospel does love precede loveliness."
- Tullian Tchividjian
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“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 17:7-8
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"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
- C.S. Lewis
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The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey