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- Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind…
- Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized…
- Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
- Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with…
- Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his…
- No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
- When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves…
- To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong