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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we…

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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will…
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is…
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system…
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of…
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of…
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or…
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep…
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the…
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's…
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another…

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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — Charles Caleb Colton
We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to… — Theodore Epp
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which… — William Ames
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He… — Teresa of Avila
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the… — Walter Brueggemann
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we… — John C. Calhoun
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless… — Vincent de Paul
We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield… — Michel de Montaigne
When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii… — Naomi Wolf
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to… — J M Coetzee

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