#wit

God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei in the world. God wants light, not darkness. He wants cosmos, not chaos. He wants peace, not disorder. He wants man to administer and to receive justice rather than to inflict and to suffer injustice. He wants man to live according to the Spirit rather than according to the flesh. He wants man bound and pledged to Him rather than to any other authority. He wants man to live and not to die. Because He wills these things God is Lord, Shepherd, and Redeemer of man, who in His holiness and mercy meets His creature; who judges and forgives, rejects and receives, condemns and saves. ↗

— Karl Barth

#communion-with-god #god #jesus #man #forgiveness

You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #inspirational #life #perception #inspirational

Forgive me. It was stupid of me to think you might need company, when clearly all you required was that decanter.” “It was not stupid. It was very kind. Quite soft, actually. A very warm, womanly gesture. I am touched.” He smiled softly. “However, if you truly want to help, if you really want to distract me, there are better ways. When I saw that dress, I dared hope you had realized that. ↗

— Madeline Hunter

#nathaniel #witty #forgiveness

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #freedom

Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are". ↗

— Anne Hines

#humour #inspirational #novel #wit #inspirational

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#entire #fools #group #minority #minority group

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#am #banker #calculating #feel #fortunately

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells

I saw the dead without really seeing them. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#i #really #saw #seeing #them

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#done #express #himself #his #honestly