“Only if you mix knowledge with attitude, character, perseverance, vision, diligence, and extreme levels of work will your college degree produce for you.”
― The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
― The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“Just as the genealogies break off at the end, because Jesus was not begotten by St. Joseph, but was truly born of the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary, so it now can be said of us that our true "genealogy" is faith in Jesus, who gives us a new origin, who brings us to birth "from God.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
“With the flight into Egypt and the return to the promised land, Jesus grants the definitive Exodus. He is truly the Son. He is not going to run away from the Father. He returns home, and he leads others home. He is always on the path toward God and thus he leads the way back from exile to the homeland, back to all that is authentic and true.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
“From the moment of his birth, he belongs outside the realm of what is important and powerful in worldly terms. Yet it is this unimportant and powerless child that proves to be the truly powerful one, the one on whom ultimately everything depends.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
“Man is a relational being. And if his first, fundamental relationship is disturbed- his relationship with God- then nothing else can truly be in order. This is where the priority lies in Jesus’ message and ministry: before all else, he wants to point man toward the essence of his malady, and to show him- if you are not healed there, then however many good things you may find, you are not truly healed.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
― Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
Gregory Maguire - The Wicked Years
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This group is for anyone who's read some or all of Gregory Maguire's Oz series, "The Wicked Years," and to discuss the author's other works as well. W ...more
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