#fes

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#church #confession #conversion #forgiveness #paul-david-tripp

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied. But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #environment #life #lifestyle #policy

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream ↗

— Cynthia Sue Larson

#lucidity #manifestation #mindfulness #reality #change

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ↗

— Hugh White

#change

My work as a Meridian Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist has taught me that people often feel guilty about the way they feel or think and many do not realise that seasonal changes can have a profound effect on the psyche. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#meridian-psychotherapist #moon-magic #mrs-darley #mrs-darley-s-pagan-whispers #mrs-darley-series-of-books

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions ↗

— Douglass B. Reeves

#education #improvement #professional-development #reform #change

Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere. ↗

— Franco Santoro

#vision #communication

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#internet #media #organization #profession #communication

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor