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“Christ is the clue to all that is.”

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Lesslie Newbigin, born on December 8, 1909 and died on January 30, 1998, was a prominent Christian theologian and author. His work focused on cultural, religious, and social issues, and had a profound impact on contemporary Christian theology. more

“... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.”

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.”

Inspirational Motivational Happiness Spiritual Purpose Universe Fashion Self Improvement Flow Intelligence Invisible Purposefulness

Book:Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life

Source: Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life

“The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.”

Mind Moments Shows Creation Development Birth Argument Metaphor Dramatic Steady Womb Stewardship Drastic Decisive Moments

Author:N. T. Wright

“All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.”

“To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.”

World Way May Play Differences Perfect Rooms Creation Objects Becoming Activity Aspect Praise Dues Behave Priests Makers Stewardship Usefulness Becoming Perfect

Author:Colin Gunton

“I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.”

Song Fighting Tunes Take Me Chords Take Me Away

Author:Nik Kershaw

“I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?”

People Clothes Screens Take Me Gracious

Author:Jeanette MacDonald

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”

Character Inspiration Success Self Improvement Anger Addiction Recovery

Author:Wayne Dyer

“It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.”

Men Trying Use Watches Asking Take Me Digging Spades Jekyll

Author:Gertrude Jekyll

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