Nik Ripken The Insanity of God quote: "Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and words and resurrection faith of the believers in persecution. These believers don't just live for Jesus, they live with Jesus every day."

[...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer.
NIK RIPKEN

But the deacon said that the Holy Spirit told him, 'You don't have to come back. You just have to go...
NIK RIPKEN

Your fear is the greatest tool you will ever give to Satan. Overcoming your fear is your greatest to...
NIK RIPKEN

Serving God is not a matter of location, but a matter of obedience.
NIK RIPKEN

I cannot forget the words of my friend, Stoyan..."I took great joy that I was suffering in my countr...
NIK RIPKEN

A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR

Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I&...
NIK WALLENDA

I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to wa...
NIK WALLENDA

I'm off to sit on a cliff.
NIK KERSHAW

It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for.
NIK WALLENDA

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm ...
NIK WALLENDA

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
NIK KERSHAW

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a p...
NIK WALLENDA

We had a couple of team meetings after those two losses and we've really got it together now.
NIK ANTROPOV

It was great, very good for me.
NIK ANTROPOV

We got a great game from our goalie, but so did they. We tried to a lot of things, but it was hard t...
NIK ANTROPOV

It was tough. They are all playing in the N.H.L. It wasn't balanced.
NIK ANTROPOV

Think of how it would be for any Canadian guy. It is the same for us.
NIK ANTROPOV

We got a great game from our goalie, but so did they.
NIK ANTROPOV

The turning point was the goal we took in the final 10 seconds of the period.
NIK ANTROPOV

This is the sweetest win over Iowa that I've experienced. We wanted to prove a point, and I think we...
NIK MOSER

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely...
NIK WALLENDA

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was wate...
NIK WALLENDA

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and...
NIK WALLENDA

I don't think it is a surprise in Canada's only officially bilingual province that it is a great tra...
NIK NANOS

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
NIK WALLENDA

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind ever...
NIK WALLENDA

You don't hear a lot from [Berryman]. He just goes out there and he does his job. It was Coach Mac's...
NIK MOSER

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.
NIK WALLENDA

They have to tread very carefully on this issue to make sure they don't alienate female voters.
NIK NANOS

We found very, very low levels of usage of public assistance and other public benefits.
NIK THEODORE

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn&...
NIK WALLENDA

It's a self-righteous pat on the shoulder.
NIK RAPELJE

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
NIK WALLENDA

It would require Stephen Harper or someone very close to Stephen Harper to make a monumental blunder...
NIK NANOS

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mi...
NIK WALLENDA

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
NIK WALLENDA

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks...
NIK WALLENDA

Last year, he was a playmaker at nickel for us. He steps up. He's had a great spring, and he's had a...
NIK MOSER

The dangers and injuries in the Midwest may have to do with the fact that roofing jobs are undertake...
NIK THEODORE

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT

This is a tremendous shock. Elrod has been such a big figure in Baltimore for so long. He was as muc...
CAL RIPKEN

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games streak in one shape or ...
CAL RIPKEN

It was an emotional night, an extraordinary moment, ... I wish Dad was there to touch and feel the s...
CAL RIPKEN

Tonight, I stand here, overwhelmed, as my name is linked with the great and courageous Lou Gehrig, ....
CAL RIPKEN

Baseball's in my blood... I've found out the last couple of years I've got a big interest in teachin...
CAL RIPKEN

I don't want to think it's true. I'm in a state of denial,
CAL RIPKEN

I guarantee you you'll feel better.
CAL RIPKEN

To me, Kirby is at his best sitting at a card table playing cards, talking to him, stories being sha...
CAL RIPKEN

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, ... Until it's rid of steroids, people are natural...
CAL RIPKEN

This World Series isn't about crowning a champion. I think the kids will remember this as a life exp...
CAL RIPKEN

He's a real person. He was genuine. He was considerate. He was everything a friend should be.
CAL RIPKEN

We're not trying to measure our success against the Little League, ... but we have the only league t...
CAL RIPKEN

When you play for so long, you see it's going to come to an end and you wonder, Is your talent dimin...
CAL RIPKEN

This is our third year here, and we're building momentum each time, ... I think our World Series has...
CAL RIPKEN

shocked, surprised, just like everyone else. I hope there's a reason or an explanation.
CAL RIPKEN

The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS

Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW

Nature is under control but not disturbed.
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task...
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS

FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping wi...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING

Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in ...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
THE LAWS OF MANU

I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS

I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Peace is the biggest struggle.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS

All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS

I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS

Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS

PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS

If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS

The Bad Pants Open has become a tradition at Indian Lakes Resort, ... It's the only golf outing in w...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

That's the scary part. I didn't know if I should smile, crack up, scream or run.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Close you eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Wicked,
THE WIZARD OF OZ

celebrate the nerd within me.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
LORD OF THE RINGS

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
LORD OF THE RINGS

It's a metaphor for our culture. This is where we get a lot of images we use in popular culture.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Dark Side of the Rainbow
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Over the Rainbow.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
LOED OF THE RINGS

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS

Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses. He knows!
THE WIZARD OF OZ

You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to ...
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

1) Are you a good witch or a bad witch? 2) Oh, i'm not a witch at all! I'm Dorothy, from Kansas.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Eve...
THE MIRROR OF MAYBE

Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
LORD OF THE RINGS

They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS

So you have chosen.....Death.
LORD OF THE RINGS

...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
LORD OF THE RINGS

PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
LORD OF THE RINGS

If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE

Three cheers for Prohibition. Without it where the hell would I be?
THE WIZARD OF OZ

There is ... a great wisdom in our language. It is the embodiment of innumerable experiences of the ...
PAUL TILLICH, THE SHAKING OF THE FOUNDATIONS

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I see myself as extremely lucky.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your bas...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very s...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it f...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the agin...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But th...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better a...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What e...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and grea...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the gam...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my t...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to pract...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learni...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball play...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring t...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because yo...
CAL RIPKEN JR

I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revol...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was see Kirby smile or hear him laugh. And...
CAL RIPKEN JR

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was hear Kirby laugh or see his smile and ...
CAL RIPKEN JR

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games steak in one shape or f...
CAL RIPKEN JR

I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosop...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys tha...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're ch...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, be...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never se...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according ...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. W...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
, "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
KNIGHT OF THE WOEFUL COUNTENANCE

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for the...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors sta...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS

I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS

The Word and prayer always go together.
GOD - 1 SAMUEL 12:23

You know… the airport is the only place you can walk around with no shoes, a glazed look on your f...
CORIANDER WOODRUFF, THE CALL OF THE SPECTACLED OWL

When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS

Although the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a qu...
ALICE MILLER, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God ag...
, IN PROPOSING THE ABOLITION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, IN FAVOR OF A "COOPERATION OF GOD-FEARING FREE NATIONS", ADDRESS UPON THE AMERICAN ROAD 1948-1950 P66

But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it ...
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Most High, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope, an...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (THE PRAYER BEFORE THE CRUCIFIX

One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN'

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized worl...
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS

Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their c...
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinen...
, THE ASCENT OF MAN, 1973

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be ...
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and words and resurrection faith of the believers in persecution. These believers don't just live for Jesus, they live with Jesus every day.

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Nik Ripken The Insanity of God

Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and words and resurrection faith of the believers in persecution. These believers don't just live for Jesus, they live with Jesus every day.

Nik Ripken The Insanity of God

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