David Augsburger Quotes

#1. And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

Jeff Lindsay

#2. Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

David W Augsburger

#3. Wherever chocolate is made, chocolate is chocolate. And any month that contains the letter a, e, i, o, or u is the proper time to share it with others.

David Augsburger

#4. The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

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#5. If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

David Augsburger

#6. The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

David Augsburger

#7. Mr. Weasley looked for a moment as though he was going to ask what these big plans were, but seemed to decide, upon reflection, that he didn't want to know.

J.K. Rowling

#8. May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause.

Regina Spektor

#9. In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

Paul David Tripp

#11. A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

David W Augsburger

#13. My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.

Henny Youngman

#14. Forgiving is ... recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out ...

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#15. The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.

David W Augsburger

#16. Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. I like people to match my energy.

Elizabeth Hurley

#18. You might be a redneck if you won't stop at a rest area if you have an empty beer can in the car.

Jeff Foxworthy

#19. A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

David Augsburger

#20. Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

David Augsburger

#21. Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.

David Augsburger

#22. Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

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#23. I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Nick Woodman

#24. The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

David W Augsburger