#tan

In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#god #gospel #religion #repentance #change

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#head #hundred #instant #only #reproduce

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conclude #difficult #masculine #me #milton

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#eaten #importance #like #marriage #matter

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

Hier denkt man in einfachen mathematischen Kategorien. Wer arbeitet, schafft Geld heran, wer im Ruhestand ist, gibt es aus. ↗

— Núria Añó

#deutsche-sprache #german #humor #inspirational #leben

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#criticism #double-standards #energy-healing #enlightenment #god

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender