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this is my buddy ryan d. busting out some beats after dinner at my house one day. he probably isn't going like that i'm posting this, but i think it's just plain incredible!

" ... newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when t hey exist."

John Piper in don't waste your life p.19

"Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy."

- John Piper in don't waste your life p.10

"That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero."

- Gene Sharp

Gene Sharp is a leading theoretician of nonviolence, whose writings inspired the student movement in Egypt, commenting on their discipline in remaining peaceful and their lack of fear.
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"Movies reflect the time. It's not so much that movies are ugly, it's the ugliness of the time that is reflected. To me that indicates what we have to pray for and pray about."

- Mother Dolores Hart

Now this nun has one cool story which includes snogging Elvis Presley and having a current annual vote for the Oscars. Check it out here.

"the key to everything rests in the ability to receive love."

- Julie in Blue Like Jazz p.226

Synchronized swimming starting at 2.20. The newest fad in wedding entertainment?

"I asked him how he kept such a good attitude all of the time with so many people abusing his kindness. Bill set down his coffee and looked me in the eye. 'Don,' he said. 'If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.' "

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.185

This is a super cool look on where we've been and where we may be going!

http://bmwactivatethefuture.com/usedtobe.php

"I feel like I'm getting obese with churchiness and need to exercise by serving or something"

- Annie

As much as I dislike cats, this is a pretty good argument for them.

This is pretty cool.

"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either."

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.142

My favourite super bowl ad by far.

"Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other."

- Romans 12: 9&10 (NLT)

"I am learning to believe better things. I am learning to believe that other people exist, that fashion is not truth; rather Jesus is the most important figure in history, and the gospel is the most powerful force in the universe. I am learning not to be passionate about empty things, but to cultivate passion for justice, grace, truth, and communicate the idea that Jesus likes people and even loves them."

-Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.112

You matter regardless of your faults, regardless of your insecurities.

"I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it was to be human. I am a human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved."

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.101

I want a pet chipmunk and this is my argument.

"Jesus promised His disciples three things, that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble."

- G.K. Chesterton

This is a poem called "Change of Plans" by Jonathan Walton.

He performed it at RIT's Intervarsity Christian Fellowship last Friday and I thought it was absolutely incredible. You can hear the whole talk titled "Rage No More: Living Without Anger" here.

The video hooked me, but her voice kept me.

"My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from this belief."

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.54

This is a poem called "Change of Plans" by Jonathan Walton.

He performed it at RIT's Intervarsity Christian Fellowship last Friday and I thought it was absolutely incredible. You can hear the whole talk titled "Rage No More: Living Without Anger" here.

(if you're viewing this on google reader, you're going to actually visit my site to listen.)

Summer anyone?

"The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they're wrong. By asking God to forgive you, you are willing to own your own crap."

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.53

"We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing."

- Penny in Blue Like Jazz p. 47

Great vacation video!

"I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God?

- Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz p.13

I love these guys and this video.

Christians protecting Muslims while they pray during protests in Egypt.

This is absolutely beautiful and, I believe, an example of how God calls us to love each other.

originally from here

Originally posted by my buddy Rogiaeu