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The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#begin #both #civil #come #community

In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts He has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience, and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good. Then we deplore the fact that we lack the deep certainty, the strong faith, and the rich experience that God has given to others, and we consider this lament to be pious. We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #god #gratitude #thankfulness #experience

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life. ↗

— Amy Grant

#confidence #convinced #fail #god #i

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people. ↗

— Amy Grant

#come #contact #day-to-day #does #entitled

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. ↗

— Amy Grant

#always #getting #great #i #like

I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go? ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #collecting-poetic-lines #hangzhou #ji-ju

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! ↗

— Hugh Grant

#awful #book #cling #could #creative

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. ↗

— Lee Grant

#after #break #communication #couple #day

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. ↗

— Luis Cernuda

#beautiful #everything #moment #passes #then

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#always #anywhere #been #everyone #go