Books Quote by James K.A. Smith Download Open image ““Our sanctification is more like a Weight Watchers program than listening to a book on tape.”” — James K.A. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Weight watchers
“he's got more heavies out looking for you than are on the books of Weight Watchers” — David Clark Copy Share Image
“The number of diet books available to the public correlates to obesity rates.” — Clay A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“No wonder there are so many people with eating disorders.It’s like this diet plan is being administered by the Gestapo.” — Helen Argiro Copy Share Image
“What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let… — Helen M. Ryan Copy Share Image
“A group called the Food Research and Action Center wants the government to spend more on food programs. Sure enough, their study found that… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well.… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
“Calories don't count if they're connected to a celbration. Everyone knows this.” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.” — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and… — Kim Brittingham Copy Share Image
“Let's be honest about the "war on obesity." It's a war on people with a particular body type, funded by diet companies.” — Golda Poretsky Copy Share Image
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship—because all kinds of secular liturgies… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the shalom he desires for creation--in a way that… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for “messages,” bent on rooting out “false” teachings. But if… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that “power is knowledge” should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The doubter’s doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give him our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image