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Quotes
Quote of the Week On Sacrifice
014 years
“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. Ifyou try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give upyour life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will saveit.”
-Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 8, verses 34 through 35
Quote of the Week On Character
014 years
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
-I finished the John Adams series by HBO this week. So I thought it appropriate to quote him. BTW-It was amazing!
Bad Friday, Good Quote
014 years
It always made me curious that this day got the name Good Friday. It’s the day that followers of Jesus Christ celebrate his crucifixion (it even feels strange to write ‘celebrate’ next to crucifixion). Perhaps it should have the name Bad Friday, or something similar (but more creative).
Of course, Good Friday is one stop in a series of necessary events leading up to Easter Sunday. And I don’t mean egg hunts and chocolate bunnies. Here’s how Jesus described it:
“…The Son of Man will be turned over to the leading priests and the teachers of the law, and they will say that he must die. They will give the Son of Man to the non-Jewish people to laugh at him
and beat him with whips and crucify him. But on the third day, he will
be raised to life again.” (Matthew 20:18-19)
There’s the celebration. That’s a good Sunday, for sure.
Whatever you believe, have a wonderful Easter weekend!
Quote of the Week On Endurance
114 years
“Whenever you do something with positive spiritual ramifications, therewill be more things than you can imagine to thwart your efforts. See itthrough and don’t give up. You won’t regret it.”
-quote from Discussion Guide for 10 Things I Hate About Christianity. Available for pre-order now and arrives March 1st (next Monday). Get a FREE gift now.
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014 years
“Think of yourself as a facilitator rather than a leader, and a guide rather than a teacher.”
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Quote of the Week On Responsibility
014 years
“Part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.”
-Jack Bauer, 24, Season 1
Quote of the Week On Actions
014 years
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
-inspired by Lost starting again, here is a quote from the real John Locke
Quote of the Week On Congress & The Ten Commandments
114 years
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
-thought it would be a good week to add a little levity with this quote from Ronald Reagan
Quote of the Week On Failure
014 years
“Most people fear becoming a failure. But they also misunderstand what that is. Failure isn’t trying something and it not working out. Failure is never trying.”
-quoted from my next book I am working on
Quote of the Week On Momentum
014 years
“I have
found two critical ingredients that make up momentum: 1) support and 2)
validation. Without those you will stall. Support is your wife liking
the idea of your book (speaking in context of myself, of course) and
letting you pursue it. Validation is someone actually buying your book…”
-taken from 10 Things I Hate About New Year’s Resolutions.
Quote of the Week On Santa
014 years
“It’s funny how many atheists (and some agnostics) have railed me over the years for teaching my kids about Jesus and God…But they have had no problem telling their kids about a fat guy sliding down the chimney with a sack full of gifts and eating the cookies and milk, his elves, flying reindeer, and somehow doing this at midnight in every home all around the world. What’s with that?”
-taken from the 10 Things I Hate About the Holidays
Quote of the Week On Christians
814 years
“Have you noticed that a lot of Christians talk in some type of code? It’s as if they have another language. A conversation with them would goa lot better with one of those universal translators they use on Star Trek when talking to various life forms.
Christians use words that don’t make sense. It’s called Christianese. Here’s a quick guide to help you with the most common terms in their code talking:
Blessed: Not a response to sneezing, but a term often describing something positive. It may be used in response to small-talk questions. Example: “How are you doing?” “I’m so blessed!” English synonyms:fine, great, good.
In the flesh (or worldly, lukewarm, not in-the-spirit): Describes a Christian who’s not extremely religious or conservative and who’s prone to make emotional, hasty decisions. He or she may even watch an R-rated movie or listen to music that’s not “Christian.” Synonyms: fair-weather fan, untrue, insincere, being human.”
-quote from the chapter on Christians in my book
Quote of the Week On Hell
014 years
“If God is real, how could he be content with a moral vacuum? I’m
not. That’s why I hate it when true justice doesn’t play out in our legal
system. But for some reason, I still have a problem accepting the next logical
conclusion—that there might be true justice applied in the afterlife.
I certainly don’t have a problem accepting the idea that people
might be rewarded in the afterlife for the good
they did on earth. And when it comes to the idea of retribution in the
afterlife for wrongdoing, maybe my only reason for squeamishness is selfish. I don’t
want to get in trouble for the wrong I’ve
done, so to let myself off the hook, I let everyone
off. Everybody gets a trophy.
It’s a paradox. Though I can accept the principle of reciprocity,
I still want to blame God for carrying it out, as if he’s some sort of savage
for actually adhering to the principle I want him to stick to.”
-from the chapter on Hell in my book.
Quote of the Week On Prayer
015 years
“I’ve had a habit of turning God into an oracle of luck. He’s the Magic
8-Ball. I shake him by throwing out my questions and expecting the answers to
float to the top. I just wish he would answer more often, “All signs point to
yes.” Actually, I’d even take “My reply is no.” Either answer would bring a
measure of relief and closure.”
-from the chapter on Prayer in my book
Quote of the Week On Rules
015 years
“It didn’t take long before I got the impression Christianity was
filled with rules. Jesus I found compelling, but I started to wonder why
someone would ever want to be a Christian with all those rules that seemed to
go with the territory.”
-from the chapter on Rules in my book.
Quote of the Week On Sin
215 years
“Jesus said things like, “I tell you the truth, everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin.” He talks about weeding out “everything that causes sin and all who do evil.” In fact, I hate that term sin. So archaic. So direct.
I hate the fact that Christianity lays out standards and principles by which to weigh my sense of morality. It speaks of sin as missing the mark and doing something I know to be wrong. I can’t ignore this, though everything in me wants to shout, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!”
-from the chapter on sin in my book.
Quote of the Week On Faith
015 years
“My faith is still a mysteryin many ways, which drives me insane, but I also know it’s the one thing that’strue.”
-from the chapter on faith in my book.
Quote of the Week From Benjamin Netanyahu
015 years
Here is my quote of the week. It is from the speech Benjamin Netanyahu gave at the UN yesterday. This portion is in regard to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. You can read the whole speech by clicking here:
“But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf
of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you
no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the
Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of
six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state.
What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! “
of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you
no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the
Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of
six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state.
What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! “
Quote of the Week On Christians
015 years
“Whether you are or aren’t a Christian, I apologize on behalf of myself and all other Christians for all the things we do and have done ove
I’m sorry.”
-from the chapter on Christians in my book
Quote of the Week On Hell
115 years
“If you’re going to accept that there’s a hell, you have to decide: Is it a place, a self-made condition, or separation from God?
When the Bible describes hell, is it saying something literal to describe something literal? Or something literal to describe something metaphorical? Or something metaphorical to describe something metaphorical? Or something metaphorical to describe something literal?”
-from the chapter on Hell in my book.
