Ched Myers Quotes

#1. I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

David Hockney

#2. Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

Peter McWilliams

#3. As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

Rodney Erickson

#4. Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?

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#5. What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

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#6. The day which we fear as our last
is but the birthday of eternity.

Seneca.

#7. I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me.

Rosamund Hodge

#8. To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

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#9. The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

William Walker Atkinson

#10. What is the meaning of Resurrection? ... is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?

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