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#1

“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exup茅ry, Night Flight

tags: prophecy

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#2

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: beloved, christianity, faith, feelings, identity, rejection, self, spiritual-life, spiritual-warfare, success, temptation, truth

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#3

“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: gaiman, good-and-evil, temptation, wickedness

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#4

“Science does a great job at reducing variables until they are small enough to be understood, but we aren't doing a great job at reassembling the picture once it has been broken down into a thousand pieces”
― Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA

tags: big-picture, big-picture-thinking-thinking, complex-systems, observations, science

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#5

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation鈥� for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
― Edward Said

tags: history, human-society, interpretation, knowledge

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#6

“The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: christian, interpretation, religion, scriptures

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#7

“Nature conveys intentions through pattern, form, and symbol.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

tags: nature, symbol

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#8

“The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.”
― Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of

tags: authors, limitations, writers, writing

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#9

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
― John Locke

tags: actions, interpretation

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#10

“Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: gods, interpretation, meme, perception

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#11

“When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorn, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness. There's so many ways a thing can be interpreted.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: intention, interpretation, significance, the-ear-of-the-listener

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#12

“It is human nature to write of that which interests us, of facts that are deemed essential at the time of inscription and that is why history as is documented, is as much an interpretation, as it is a collection of facts.”
― Aysha Taryam

tags: aysha-taryam, documentation, history, interpretation

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#13

“The mind justifies accepted interpretations as truths.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

tags: accepted-quotes, interpretation, justifies, mind-quotes, truths-quotes

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#15

“The law is what is read, not what is written.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

tags: interpretation, liberals, living-document

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#16

“Religion folks, is open to interpretation. And how YOU interpret the message you find in your religion says a lot about YOU.”
― Christina Engela

tags: interpret, interpretation, message, religion

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#17

“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.”
― Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love

tags: communication, communication-skills, interpret, interpretation, interpreting, men-and-women, speak, speaking

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#18

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
― Voltaire

tags: injustice, speaking, thinking, thoughts

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#19

“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

tags: courage, testimony, transparency

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#20

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

tags: humility, testimony, wonder, worship

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#21

“God can be patient with you until you understand what He is saying.”
― Olawale Daniel

tags: careful, error, errors, patience, people, record, testimony, understanding, world

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#22

“Understand that Goliath is not just a giant. He's also your platform.”
― Andrena Sawyer

tags: courage, david, favor, fear, goliath, grace, platform-building, restoration, testimony

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#23

“You live in a world where people remember your error far more than the testimony after. So you gotta be careful with your record.”
― Olawale Daniel

tags: careful, error, errors, people, record, testimony, world

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#24

“Eternity is never having to show up because there was never a time that you were not there. And because this is the nature of God, it鈥檚 not about asking Him to show up in our lives. Rather, it鈥檚 about asking Him to shine through our lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: christian, christianity, eternal, god, jesus, presence, testimony, witness

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#25

“What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.”
― J.R. Rim

tags: authentic, deep-truth, discovery, euphoria, experience, give, godsend, godsent, heart, identity, life, life-goes-on, live-your-truth, message, my-story, open, quest, real, reality, speak, story, struggle, talk, testimonial, testimony, transparent, true, who-are-you, your-journey

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#26

“Women have been using their 鈥榳omanly wiles鈥� to influence male鈥檚 behavior for thousands of years. Why are they suddenly crying foul after they receive favor from those same men, some even decades before? They knew what they were doing from the start but had no problem accepting the benefits from those influential men. Why do women feel like they have the right to make outrageous claims of sexual harassment against men while destroying careers, businesses, and families with no repercussions?”
― Jane Whitaker

tags: biography, cry-foul, metoo-movement, speaking-out, women

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#27

“How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: determination, storm-of-life, testimony

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#28

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

tags: eyes, looking, seeing, speaking, talking

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#29

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words

768 likes

#30

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates

tags: definitions, power-of-thoughts, power-of-words, rational-thought, wisdom

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#31

“鈥嶢 careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a sculpture in some distant country. The idea is highly sophisticated, drawing together the complexities of motivation in individual psychology, the social environment, and also the unseen world. Idols are not just on pagan altars, but in well-educated human hearts and minds”
― Richard Keyes

tags: idolatry, old-testament, richard-keyes

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