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“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”

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Author:Brennan Manning

“Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.”

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Author:Carl F. H. Henry

“If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.”

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Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.”

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Book:A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition

Source: A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition

“The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.”

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Author:John Bunyan

“To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.”

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Author:Huldrych Zwingli

“Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.”

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Book:The Beloved Disciple: Following John to the Heart of Jesus

Source: The Beloved Disciple: Following John to the Heart of Jesus

“The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.”

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Book:True Spirituality

Source: True Spirituality