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Great/inspirational quotes

I have reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland. – Paul Simon
 
Centuries of old Puritan and Victorian practices have stained the intention of our Creator, marking the body as the enemy of the spiritual life. But no such thing is true. Our body was elaborately fashioned by God, created as the dwelling place where we reside with Him.

Contrary to common religious traditions, we are not to deny or despise the body. While speaking to husbands and wives, Paul matter-of-factly states, “no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it”(Ephesians 5:29). It must have brought God deep sadness to cover the beauty of Adam and Eve’s bodies with animal skins after they sinned. His glory is dimmed when we loathe or ignore the magnificence of the human body.

Bill Ewing
Rest Assured (2003)
 
“I can’t afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.” Bill Johnson
 
‘The world’, although ‘common’ to all persons and in that sense ‘shareable’, is possibly never experienced by two individuals in absolutely the same way. When two men look at a landscape, and one likes it and the other does not, there is already a gulf between them. To one man the landscape may simply be itself, full of its ‘is-ness’: he feels a delicate sadness, perhaps, at his otherness from it. To the other the ‘same’ trees and sky and grass are seen as creation: as a veil, revealing through themselves their Creator. For one man there may be little or no sense of connection between himself and nature outside himself; for the same person, on another occasion, there may not even be any essential distinctions between inside, outside, self, and nature. In so far as we experience the world differently, in a sense we live in different worlds.

R.D. Laing, Self and Others, 1961
 
"We know too much about things in this world to lean much on man. … Every single item of history today is certainly in accord with God’s intention, even though it seems that almost all of it is contrary to His will. Only if that is true can we have universal reconciliation. God can save all mankind eventually only if He keeps the reins in His hand.

"All will not simply be saved, but reconciled, glorifying God. All this is fulfilling God’s intention. … So let us give thanks for it, no matter how bad it seems to be. When we realize this, then we can live in this insane asylum, and we will not quarrel with the inmates. … We acknowledge that all is out of Him, as well as through Him and, consequently will be for Him in the great consummation."

A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)
 
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FollowingHim said:
Frank, that's exactly what it does say already
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No, not quite exactly. 2 is binary, the number 10 used in the original quote technically means decimal.
Guess I was being technical:)
  1. unary
  2. binary
  3. ternary
  4. quarternary
  5. quinary
  6. senary
  7. septenary
  8. octal
  9. nonary
  10. decimal
  11. undecimal
  12. duodecimal
  13. tridecimal
  14. tetradecimal
  15. pentadecimal
  16. hexadecimal
  17. heptadecimal
  18. octodecimal
  19. enneadecimal
  20. vigesimal
  21. etc
 
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world; this is something you are free to do, and it is in accord with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid.”

Franz Kafka
 
"The great turning point from disaster to salvation took place on Golgotha. It is not my faith that creates salvation for me; salvation creates for me faith."

Jurgen Moltman
The Coming of God (1996)
 
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