Abuse Enablers Quotes & Sayings

In Christ we are no longer dominated by the flesh, but by the Spirit; but we are not yet delivered from the flesh. So long as this eschatological tension exists for the believer, so long will there be - in Calvin's view - a gap between the definition of faith and the actual experience of the believer: — Sinclair B. Ferguson

The sight of the wall of water outside reassured me, giving me the idea that it made very little difference whether I stayed with her, or set out alone on my journey that had neither visible starting point nor destination. It didn't matter: since, however closely I became involved with another existence, my own world would always remain secret, inaccessible and shut-off; nobody would ever see me, except as a dim, changeable, wavering shadow, through its impenetrable, semi-opaque walls. — Anna Kavan

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises. — Dalai Lama XIV

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. — Thomas Jefferson

For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program. — Tom Robbins

There exits within the ecclesia and among its citizens a phenomena I refer to as 'Spiritual Correctness'. Essentially it says: 'Don't say anything that could offend anyone, focus on what is right with the 'church' and its leadership, don't be critical, speak the truth in 'love', promote the status quo, don't make 'waves', don't call anyone 'out', respect 'authority', don't expose 'wrong-doing', cover those who 'spiritually abuse' others, keep it 'secret' within our family; don't ask any hard questions. Sounds exactly like the textbook definition of a highly dysfunctional family system. The only 'system' and its enablers that Jesus spoke out against vehemently was the religious system of His day and its leadership."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions. [Dr. Maurice Blanche] — Jacqueline Winspear

I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period. — Charles L. Bailey Jr.

Genevieve burst into laughter and hugged him fiercely, because otherwise she would cry. Not because she was unhappy but because joy crowded every inch of her heart and soul. She was about to burst with it. — Maya Banks

The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press. — Lauren Myracle

Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold. — Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else ... For a young child everything that happens is a necessity. — John Berger

Speaking of people being foxy, do you mean? I'm George Lovelace," said George. "I say my surname without shame, because I am secure in my masculinity like that." "Oh, — Cassandra Clare

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. — Graham Norton

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. — Thomas Carlyle

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. — Walter Wager