“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.” ShouldBelievePersonsWholeOrderExpressionMessagesLeavingFollowingPracticalsProphetEntityHis LoveVividAbidingPiousObeying Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
“Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me” KnowsBelieveMeanChildrenImportantActionI BelieveMessagesFollowingI Believe InCriticalHandleBelieve In YouI Trust YouI Believe In You Author:Barbara Coloroso
“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.” NeedsFactsFacesFoundInterestChristCommonHonestyCostMessagesStressLaysCrowdsFollowingSinnerUrgesGatheringPresentationFollowing Christ Author:J. I. Packer
“And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.” PeopleYoungOrderCommunityBehindsMessagesMassLettersFollowingSundayPriestsFuryCardinalsStaggeringParishAttendance Author:Sara Paretsky
“Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!” WayHeartJesusPowerfulFansMessagesCommitmentFollowingOur TimeCrucialFollowing Jesus Author:Jud Wilhite
“One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.” PeopleSaidTeamTrumpVictoryMessagesFollowingOnlineSevereHateful Author:Trevor Noah
“I love the message that Barack Obama said - that we want Donald Trump to succeed because we want America to succeed. I'm sort of following that. I think there's been a lot of frustration for a lot of people, but at the end of the day we all want this country to survive and thrive and be the superpower that we know it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSaidEndsCountryAmericaTrumpSucceedMessagesFollowingBarackThe End Of The DayFrustrationThriveSuperpower Author:Gayle King
“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.” PeopleHeartDreamSufferingSoundBoysHeardPleaseMessagesUnderstoodPressesFollowingAlarmsHeedAlchemist Author:Paulo Coelho
“Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.” WorldHeartSoulCharacterVoiceCourageClearListeningHonorMessagesBraveryCleanFollowingIntellectYour SoulInclinationBattlefieldsActs Of Bravery Author:Anna Quindlen
“The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.” LooksEndsBodyDiesLeftSidesBlackWhiteCrazyBedMessagesStandingDown AndWingsLeavingPatternsFollowingShouldersShopsBlack And WhiteWornTornFeathersLeatherHipsterSpraySneakersKiltsPlaidCheckered Book:Going Bovine Source: Going Bovine