“If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?” IfsDoeSelfHomeChristianJoySexSecretSacrificeLonelinessProduceBrokenCommitmentShameResponseFruitConservativeFaithfulnessSelf SacrificeLoving FamilySex RelationshipsBroken Family Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.” DoeDoneActionLibertyExampleProduceShameIllContagiousGood ActionsEmulation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".” WorldWayMayMeanDifferentSeemsOrderStrongPowerfulEffectsProduceWeakShameMethodInstrumentsContraryLikesRosary Author:Columba Marmion
“We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.” WayWantSufferingProcessResultsMistakeProduceHonorGloryWeaknessShameFinals Author:Warren W. Wiersbe
“Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.” EnergyDealsWorryProduceWeightShameFatsSugarSpursGlucose Author:Bill Crawford
“Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.” FeelingsBodyHandsRiskProduceAmountShameUncomfortableChemicalsUncomfortable Feeling Author:Christiane Northrup
“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.” MenFeelsHumansMadeStillsImportantWarRealSelfEyeDangerProduceHumilityProudShamePatientVicesLovelyGenuineRepentancePermitCowardiceSelf KnowledgeCalamityEarthquakesUndoneLoathingSelf LoathingReal SelfHuman Eyes Author:C. S. Lewis
“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.” MenKindSoulUseFeelingsBeautifulUsedKindnessProduceOughtComfortQuietShameUpliftingAbundanceSourUnkindKind WordsMoroseBeautiful Images Author:Blaise Pascal
“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.” WhiteProduceToolsShameTraumaCapitalistPatriarchyParalysis Author:Bell Hooks