Tension comes from fear, and fear comes from a lack of confidence and a loss of trust.
“Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.”
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“I believed then and I believe now that where everybody thinks the same nobody thinks very much.”
― The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
― The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
“There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.”
― The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
― The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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