I don’t understand hospital chaplains that try to rob my patients of their anger. Sometimes anger is a key motivator that gets people to take action. Anger can push a cancer patient to jump out of his hospital bed, walk down to the nurses station and scream, “I am getting the hell out of here!”. There is a misconception that God is simply sweet and passive. Actually, God can be quite cunning, manipulative and relentless with his children. What we consider as negative traits are actually helpful in molding us. He will use a negative emotion if needed to push people to do things that will change them for the better. He will allow people or situations to derail us if there is a chance that those interactions will push us forward. Personally, I don’t want a God that is going to send some church member to my deathbed with a plate of cookies and tell me to have faith. Actually, I rather have a God that screams, “Get the hell off your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Walk down the hall with that Physical Therapist so you can get on with your life!" A little anger in a person can push them to do amazing things.
Shannon L. AlderStichwörter: inspiration god sorrow spirituality adversity motivation anger answers illness sickness desire challenges drive obstacles hospitals will-power patients trajedy
By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.
James K.A. SmithStichwörter: imagination consumerism values ritual desire marketing disciplines
You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.
Anthony LiccioneStichwörter: love sacrifice desire instinct impulse to-die-for give-all
If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.
Melissa MarrStichwörter: dream desire wicked-lovely leslie niall
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.
Bryant McGillStichwörter: freedom failure desire
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
Joseph MurphyLove, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.
Anthony LiccioneStichwörter: pain love desire regrets bullet picture-perfect ricochet
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonaldStichwörter: subconscious desire sehnsucht potency liminal Іοϋλίαν-ποθω
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
George SaundersListen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
Aimee BenderStichwörter: house metaphor desire heat
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