The author offers Paul Tripp’s analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
– JD Greear
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- It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
- Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship. – JD Greear
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- Some people are born to make a Point… And some to make money… No COMPARATIVE analogy exists – Talees Rizvi
- Life doesn’t offers charity, it offers chance. – Amit Kalantri
- Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Let go of the past, even if it offers you Heaven; embrace the future, even if it offers you Hell. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
- If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former. – Amit Kalantri
- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
- Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn’t redeemed merely by the fact that it’s Christian. – Kevin Roose
- We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. – Paul Park
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- My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ. – JD Greear
- When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. – JD Greear
- Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. – Bill Gaede
- We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. – Peter Heg
- Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. – Dorothy Allison
- Denying realism amounts to megalomania. – Karl R Popper
- What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman’s reputation, it amounts to the same thing. – Margaret Atwood
- The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization. – Beryl Smalley
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- Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering. – Debasish Mridha
- To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Optimal nutrition is eating the right things, in the right amounts, at the right time. – Siim Land
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- The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist. – Marc Fitten
- A man who offers to cook after he’s seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen. – Rosen Trevithick
- A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life. – Sunday Adelaja
- Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head. – WeeKittyAndTAT
- Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head. – WeeKittyAndTAT
- I’m wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face. – Tahereh Mafi
- Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove