Dandelion seeds Quote by Walter Wink Download Open image “Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it” — Walter Wink ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dandelion seeds Dandelions Jesus Killing Seeds Trying
“Jesus wasn’t blowing smoke. His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms. He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share
“here are other proposals regularly advanced as rival explanations to the early Christian one: 1. Jesus didn’t really die; someone gave him a drug… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed by the… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
“So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over the empire's… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Somewhere someone thinks they love someone else exactly like I love you. Somewhere someone shakes from the ripple of a thousand butterflies inside a… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
“As he left room 817, Nguyen turned for one final look before he allowed the soldiers to enter and remove the body. Nguyen thought… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The effects of slander are always long-lived. Once lies about you have been circulated, it is extremely difficult to clear your name. It's a… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground. It's a soft and good feeling but can… — Seohyun Copy Share Image
“The summer came to life. It burst from gray to fierce blue and gold in the blink of an eye; the air pealed with… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“When Jim left the planet so suddenly, all of us who loved him, worked with him, were inspired by him, gathered in New York… — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Private Parts The first love of my life never saw me naked - there was always a parent coming home in half an hour… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image