Bernaude Quotes & Sayings

American Christianity is a story of perpetual upheavals in churches and individual lives. Starting with the extraordinary conversion experience, our lives are motivated by a constant expectation for the Next Big Thing. We're growing bored with the ordinary means of God's grace, attending church week in and week out. Doctrines and disciplines that have shaped faithful Christian witness in the past are often marginalized or substituted with newer fashions or methods. The new and improved may dazzle us for a moment, but soon they have become "so last year". Michael Horton, Ordinary, 16 — Michael S. Horton

There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet. — Chris Kyle

The thought had crossed his mind, only very fast and looking nervously from side to side in case it got knocked over. — Terry Pratchett

MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP. — Shane Claiborne

Don't sell your options short — William Deresiewicz

And we will rise up, Red as the dawn. — Victoria Aveyard