Superficial Quotes - Page 23

• The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Views, Christ, Satisfied

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.647, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, People, Wish

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• Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Humility, Light

  "Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.

  Francis Chan

  Live Your Life, Comfort, May

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.203, David C Cook

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• When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.

  Julian Barnes

  Country, Pain, Book

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Ideas, Oneness

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• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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• Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Superficial Knowledge

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.275

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• How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

  Pope Francis

  Lord, Lukewarm

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. April 7, 2014.

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• The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

  John Bevere

  Jealous, Want, Fellowship

  FaceBook post by John Bevere from Sep 13, 2013

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