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I notice now that the psalms are full of references to the rocks God split open to give them water during their wilderness wanderings….Those wilderness years, the bare, hard, impenetrable rocks, became the very place that God refreshed
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“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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