Hell is an endless church service without God; heaven is God within an endless church service (Martin Marty)
‘I’d rather be accused of too much grace than of too much law’
God sees us as we can be but loves us as we are
‘Wherever I go, there I am’; ‘On this spot, in 1832, nothing happened’ (two bits of tourism trivia from England)
Better to be unhappy single than unhappy married
What is life’s heaviest burden? To have nothing to carry – that atrophies all your strength
‘O Lord, give us grace to love you, and when we love you, you give us the grace to love you more’ (Augustine)
‘Wonderful things in the Bible I see / Things that are put there by you and by me’
If you want all the answers now, kill yourself!
Right of way in third world traffic is determined by decibels, centimetres and kilograms
‘Weep for the body of my Son which is broken’ (prophecy to a conference by Catherine de Hueck Doherty)
Pilate’s blueprint for personal destruction: # deciding/acting against your conscience # organizing life in terms of others’ expectations # refusing to take responsibility for your decisions
‘I don’t want to stand before God with a big ministry and a withered heart’ (evangelist with integrity).
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