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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#deepest #god #his #impossible #incredible

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#although #blurred #clear #colour #could

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#genius #knows #lucky

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#good #good memory #memory #never #realize

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#i #lean #like #move #really

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#because #comes #good #intelligence #intention

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#character #christ #code #hence #human

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#intelligence #intentions #our #results

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly