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- Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
- If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
- All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on…
- I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather…
- So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we…
- True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the…
- I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to…
- I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.
- All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars…
- God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems…
- I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the…
- The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life…
- Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing…
- The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle