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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, then you grow wings.
~William Sloan Coffin

From Bones episode Back in the Saddle:

Booth: It’s got to be (crappy sex).
Bones: Why?
Booth: Why? I’ll tell you why. Here we are, all of us, basically alone, separate creatures circling each other, all searching for the slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places, some just give up hope because in their mind they’re thinking there’s nobody out there for me…but all of us, we keep trying, over and over again. Why? Because every once in a while, every once in a while, two people meet and there’s that spark and, yes bones, he’s handsome and she’s beautiful and maybe that’s all they see at first, but making love, making love that’s when two people become one.
Bones: It is scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space.
Booth: Yea, but what’s important is we try…and when we do it right we get close.
Bones: To what? Breaking the laws of physics
Booth: Yea Bones, a miracle. Those people role-playing, fetishes and their little sex games – it’s crappy sex; well, at least compared to the real thing.
Bones: You’re right.

“You’re talking about the American dream. You find something that you love and then you twist and you torture it, try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that and at the end you can’t find a trace of what you started out loving.”
~Justin Matisse

This was an interesting quote our pastor read in the fourth part of Liquid’s trashTalk series:

“A culture of complaint has infected American society…the truth is that some of these complaints are unfounded or else ignore offsetting blessings.”

I’m listening to an Andy Stanley series on the story of Joseph (Genesis 37-47) and heard this quote:
“The test of prosperity is passed by fewer people than the test of want and need.”

Good stuff.

I saw a misquoted version of this statement from John Muir yesterday at the supermarket on one of those re-usable grocery bags. It still spoke to me.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
~John Muir

I heard this quote on Sunday and thought I would share:
“I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.”
~Bono

Today this phrase stood out to me: “One stinging sorrow spared would have been one blessing missing or unclaimed”.

“Our greatest woes result from the corruption of our highest good, e.g., speech, sex, technology, atomic
power.”
~Gordon J. Wenham

Control is an illusion.
~Paraphrase of Mare Cortese