Pastor John Piper:
“We were not made for mirrors.”
This quote came in a brief discussion on why we travel to see the Grand Canyon, or the ocean, or the Alps, or want to watch the Olympics. It is because we were made to behold greatness, namely God’s greatness, not to look in mirrors.
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That’s a pretty cool quote, I like it.
–RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com