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- If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to…
- With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of…
- Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of…
- You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for…
- The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was…
- Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years…
- That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a…
- The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order…
- Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is…
- The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose…
- Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the…
- ...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,…
- But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the…
- For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to…
- The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply…
- God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all…
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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