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  • #1
    “Yet Jesus spotted Zacchaeus, perched with pigeons in a fig tree, and rearranged his whole day just to be with him.

    [...]

    This is the God who wants you to know him, to love him, and to be loved by him. A God who can do anything he wants, yet chooses to spend the day with you.”
    Rich Wilkerson Jr., Friend of Sinners: Why Jesus Cares More About Relationship Than Perfection

  • #2
    Italo Calvino
    “Al llegar a cada nueva ciudad el viajero encuentra un pasado suyo que ya no sabia que tenia: la extrañeza de los que no eres o no posees mas, te espera al paso en los lugares extraños y no poseidos.
    Marco [Polo] entra en una ciudad: ve a alguien que vive en una plaza una vida o un instante que podrian ser suyos; en el lugar de aquel hombre ahora hubiera podido estar el si se hubiese detenido en el tiempo mucho tiempo antes, o bien si mucho tiempo antes, en una encrucijada, en vez de tomar por un camino hubiese tomado por el opuesto y al cabo de una larga vuelta hubiera ido a encontrarse en el luhar de aquel hombre en aquella plaza. En adelante, de aquel pasado suyo verdadero o hipotetico, el queda excluido; no puede detenerse; debe continuar hasta otra ciudad donde lo espera otro pasado suyo, o algo que quizas habia sido un posible futuro y ahora es el presente de algun otro.
    Los futuros no realizados son solo ramas del pasado: ramas secas.
    -¿Viajas para revivir tu pasado?-era en ese momento la pregunta del Kan, que podia tambien formularse asi: ¿Viajas para encontrar tu futuro?
    Y la respuesta de Marco:
    -El otro lado es un espejo en negativo. El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendra.”
    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #4
    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #5
    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #9
    “Debido a que David sabía que una ambición dividida lleva a la distracción, debilidad y decepción, él enfocó su corazón de manera tenaz. "Existe una cosa que quiero". La distracción en medio de la búsqueda nos lleva a la indeterminación y a la divagación.”
    Dwayne Roberts, One Thing: Boldly Pursuing All That Matters

  • #10
    “La revelación produce deseo, el deseo produce acción, la acción produce determinación, la determinación trae más revelación.”
    Dwayne Roberts, One Thing: Boldly Pursuing All That Matters

  • #11
    “Jesús no quiere simplemente una interacción intelectual, quiere que sientas su deseo por ti.”
    Dwayne Roberts, One Thing: Boldly Pursuing All That Matters

  • #12
    Rob Bell
    “Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.

    Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.

    Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.

    Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.”
    Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
    tags: love

  • #13
    Rob Bell
    “And in trying to protect the image of God in them, we just might be protecting the image of God in ourselves in the process. Because with every decision, conversation, gesture, comment, action, and attitude, we're inviting heaven or hell to earth.”
    Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

  • #14
    Rob Bell
    “It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into?
    If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the "one thing" could.”
    Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

  • #15
    Rob Bell
    “Agape doesn't need a reason.”
    Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

  • #16
    Rob Bell
    “[...] it's through Moses that God makes four promises to these slaves.

    I will take you out.
    I will rescue you.
    I will redeem you.
    I will take you to me.

    There's a reason why these four promises are so significant – they're the promises a Jewish groom makes to a Jewish bride. This is wedding language.”
    Rob Bell, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

  • #17
    José Saramago
    “Las imágenes no ven, Equivocación tuya, las imágenes ven con los ojos que las ven, sólo ahora la ceguera es para todos, Tú sigues viendo, Iré viendo menos cada vez, y aunque no pierda la vista me volveré más ciega cada día porque no tendré quien me vea.”
    José Saramago, Blindness

  • #18
    José Saramago
    “[...] porque los sentimientos con que hemos vivido y que nos hicieron vivir como éramos, nacieron de los ojos que teníamos, sin ojos serán diferentes los sentimientos, no sabemos cómo, no sabemos cuáles [...]”
    José Saramago, Blindness

  • #19
    José Saramago
    “Si acabamos todos ciegos, como parece que va a ocurrir, para qué queremos la estética, [...] Probablemente, sólo en un mundo de ciegos serán las cosas lo que realmente son.”
    José Saramago, Blindness

  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him”
    C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

  • #29
    W.G. Sebald
    “Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
    W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

  • #30
    W.G. Sebald
    “Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life, the children as much as myself. It seems to me sometimes that we never get used to being on this earth and life is just one great, ongoing, incomprehensible blunder.”
    W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn



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