“It’s also humbling. We like to think we make up our minds about important issues based on rational, unbiased assessment of the available facts. But the evidence assembled by Kahan and Peters shows that our beliefs, even something as scientifically oriented as climate change, are driven by a psychological need to fit in. And so we create strategies for doing this.”
~Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics podcast “The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t it?”
“There are two different ways of getting in to a swimming pool. The first way, you take your toe, you carefully test the water’s temperature. And if that feels OK slowly get in to the water letting your body adjust to the cold. Then there’s the second way of getting in to a pool..You…JUMP! That’s me.”
~Molly Shannon, Superstar
This quote from David Wells struck me this morning. From his book, God in the Wasteland:
turned to a God that we can use rather than to a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us, for our satisfaction — not because we have learned to think of him in this way through Christ but because we have learned to think of him in this way through the marketplace. In the marketplace, everything is for us, for our pleasure, for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into the God who is at our mercy…if the sunshine of his benign grace fails to warm us as we expect, if he fails to shower prosperity and success on us, we will find ourselves unable to believe in him anymore.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
I work in a manufacturing environment that sits next to our national office. As a result you wind up with people in uniforms from the manufacturing environment and people from the national office who wear business casual. It’s easy to perceive this as a class distinction. Folks in the manufacturing environment allow themselves to feel this class distinction, to feel inferior. The same could go for people who work in cubicles versus having an office. It’s a perceived class distinction. You can choose to believe it or choose not to. It all comes down to fear and self-confidence. Are you going to allow a uniform or a cubicle to define your worth?
Recently, we attended my husband’s eleven year high school reunion. It made me recall this quote from Hope Floats:
“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”
~Birdee Pruitt
Perfection is the enemy!
~ Lyrics from the song “Free to Be Me” by Francesca Battistelli
Love takes risk.
~Dr J. Long
History is a maiden, and you can dress her however you wish.
Recently I saw this quote in my weekly calendar.
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
It was misattributed to Malcom X. Peter Marshall really said it. It’s unfortunate that a calendar publisher would print false information. Aren’t they supposed to check this stuff out?
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, then you grow wings.
~William Sloan Coffin