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We evolved consciences so that we would internalize community values and police ourselves. But what happens when you have a hyperactive conscience and make up rules that nobody else knows about, just so you can punish yourself for breaking
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“I continue to take critiques like his seriously, but I will not stop working in Jesus' authority merely because people do not like what I am doing. If I must choose between helping a person to freedom by using approaches not found in Scripture (though not antiscriptural) or else allowing that person to remain in bondage because my approach is not specifically taught in scripture, I choose to help.
The fact that God blesses our efforts so regularly, using them to bring freedom to people in amazing ways, encourages us to continue both ministering and experimenting to find better ways to help people, in spite of the criticism. I take the approach of D.L. Moody, who said, I understand, in response to a person criticizing his evangelistic methods, "I like the way I do it better than the way you don't do it.”
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The fact that God blesses our efforts so regularly, using them to bring freedom to people in amazing ways, encourages us to continue both ministering and experimenting to find better ways to help people, in spite of the criticism. I take the approach of D.L. Moody, who said, I understand, in response to a person criticizing his evangelistic methods, "I like the way I do it better than the way you don't do it.”
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“After a while most people with PTSD don't spend a great deal of time or effort on dealing with the past--their problem is simply making it through the day. Even traumatized patients who are making real contributions in teaching, business, medicine, or the arts and who are successfully raising their children expend a lot more energy on the everyday tasks of living than do ordinary mortals.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings towards Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's flying so badly."
A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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