Mideast Coastland

Stretched three states wide.

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All is not lost, as long as what you failed doing was something worth more than just your arrogant pride.

August Burns Red

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If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared, it is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God’s commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God, not trying to direct if for selfish purposes. Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via contrariansoul)

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Augustine of Hippo (via fyp-philosophy)

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saddest moment in pokemon history

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nonviolence, ftw

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Modern Christ

[philosophy-quotes]

The key to wisdom is this — constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Peter Abelard (via philosophy-quotes)

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[God] doesn’t change the past, but He’s beautiful at changing the meaning of the past.

Greg Boyd (via blakebaggott)

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If love is to be placed above all other considerations (Col. 3:14; 1 Peter 4:8), if nothing has any value apart from love (1 Cor. 13:1-3), and if the only thing that matters is faith working in love (Gal. 5:6), how is it that possessing Christlike love has never been considered the central test of orthodoxy?

Greg Boyd (via blakebaggott)

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

Despite the fact that the Gospels are filled with page after page of Jesus confronting and rebuking the religious leaders of his day for their hurtful approach to Scripture, we have somehow adopted their approach to biblical interpretation characterized by unquestioning obedience, rather than the approach of Jesus characterized by a hermeneutic of faithful questioning.

Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture (via contrariansoul)

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God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!

Greg Boyd

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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that he [Christ] might illuminate the world by his wisdom and excite it to the love of himself."

Peter Abelard

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