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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c32107 | If a spiritual community only points back to where it has been or if it only digs in its heels where it is now, it is a dead end or a parking lot, not a way. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 7bb024c | That is what mature faith requires -- not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn -- including so much more to learn about humility. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 78a0734 | MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE tell the story of Jesus in ways similar to one another (which is why they're often called the synoptic gospels--with a similar optic, or viewpoint). Many details differ (and the differences are quite fascinating), but it's clear the three compositions share common sources. The Fourth Gospel tells the story quite differently. These differences might disturb people who don't understand that storytelling in the ancient .. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| c67f5e2 | But in the end you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and Caesars and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by the empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. You can try to hybridize them and compromise them for centuries, but like oil and water they eventually separate and prove incompatible. They refuse to alloy. They produce.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| db73db0 | Too often we put the gospel of Jesus through the strainer of consumerist-capitalism and retain only the thin broth that this modern-day Caesar lets pass through. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| bb09881 | Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 36343f8 | The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 2409b70 | We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesus and his example. | kings understanding | Brian D. McLaren | |
| f4a328d | Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 21dad38 | and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| f8d06b2 | We might say that whatever our God is like, whether or not our God exists, our God is still powerful because our image of God transforms us. Like an image in a mirror, our God concept reflects back to us the image of what we aspire to become. Powerful and vengeful? Kind and merciful? Dominating and in control? Relational and respectful? Like God, like believer, we might say. Our image of God, our image of ourselves, and our processes of ind.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 274a1b5 | And there's your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by, all of them have some potential for some perverted, self-destructive fascination - except eating. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5972e65 | Kriss gives me a sibling-punch. Anyone who has a sibling will know what that is--a punch that really hurts quite a lot, and that is meant to, but that you cannot take offense at, or retaliate against, because you went out of your way to get it--because sometimes you want your sibling to punch you. No one knows why this is. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a8082f6 | For as I sit there, in pain, I suddenly notice I have changed. I am not self-loathing anymore. These billion cheap blackbirds inside me - beaking the wires of the cage, frantic - are now on the ground, sleeping. This billion eyed mess, which I cannot comprehend, contain or name, has now disappeared - replaced by these hot, red lines on my leg and arm. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a8f18a6 | I will work out exactly how - with my no money, no money at all, until I actually receive my first, dawdling pay-cheque - I will get to Birmingham later. Perhaps Birmingham will, in the next week, move closer to Wolverhampton, and I can simply walk there! | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5aa634c | intolerable, because then I imagine you having sex and that, inevitably, makes me want to kill myself, and everyone in this family. And everyone I've ever met. And God. I don | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d6a3ecc | We should have the lady-balls to say, "Yeah--I like the look of this world. And I've been here for a good while, watching. Now--here's how I'd tweak it. Because we're all in this together. We're all just, you know. The Guys." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 773f4f1 | You can't meet your heroes--because they are, in the end, just an idea, that lives inside you. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 26f9f83 | When people suggest that what, all along, has been holding women back is other women bitching about each other, I think they're severely overestimating the power of a catty zinger during a cigarette break. We have to remember that snidely saying, "Her hair's a bit limp on top" isn't what's keeping womankind from closing the 30 percent pay gap and a place on the board of directors. I think that's more likely to be down to tens of thousands o.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ab28c0d | Everything I am is based on this ugly building on its lonely lawn--lit up during winter darkness; open in the slashing rain--which allowed a girl so poor she didn't even own a purse to come in twice a day and experience actual magic: traveling through time, making contact with the dead--Dorothy Parker, Stella Gibbons, Charlotte Bronte, Spike Milligan. A library in the middle of a community is a cross be-tween an emergency exit, a life raft .. | library library-funding | Caitlin Moran | |
| d7da5af | We live now in a glorious age which we might term 'Post Frozen'. Frozen - the feminist Disney movie where the idiot sexy prince turns out to be a betraying motherfuck, and the whole plot revolves around, instead, the love of two sisters. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 62d9e7a | Or perhaps we should just junk the whole idea of getting married in the first place. I'm generally against anything where you're supposed to change your name. When else do you get named something else? On joining a nunnery, or becoming a porn | over-spending | Caitlin Moran | |
| fc6dcbe | We need a temporary cessation in people having any opinions about any women, ever. I propose a, say, five-year moratorium on having opinions about women, in order to let one generation of girls get from one side of puberty to the other without growing up in a climate where women are constantly being scolded, chivvied, harassed, or subjected to thunderous opinion columns concluding that, yet again, some woman in the public eye has overreache.. | opinion women | Caitlin Moran | |
| d0567bd | So far, the only plan I've come up with is writing. I can write, because writing--unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms--is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons. Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack of connections, cannot stop you doing. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 33a0719 | I saw what an achievement it was--the will of a small, countable number of men and women who wrote, and thought, and marched, and sang. If you'd killed the right two hundred people, this future would never have come at all. Perhaps this future had come so late because, previously, they had killed the right two hundred people--over and over, through history. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 381549c | There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time. 'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And the.. | government politics poor rich | Caitlin Moran | |
| 40825eb | In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right. | decision feminism woman | Caitlin Moran | |
| d4527a3 | He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave. | beautiful-people energy | Caitlin Moran | |
| 6913061 | A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e445c50 | My general rule of thumb is that you're always a little bit closer to the conditions that led to the outbreak of the Second World War than you think you are. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1a5c9a9 | If you fancy someone hot who is already married, just wait a while - their wife might catch fire. (Jane Eyre) | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 60bc31b | What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| c43b810 | I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 9b850cb | All that summer, as I end up in his flat over and over, drinking his wine, having his bad pervy sex, and then lying on the bed, talking about Auden's influence on Morrissey, I feel like we're in a huge, ongoing surreal session of the Post-it Game, in which Rich has stuck a Post-it on my head on which is written either "My girlfriend" or "Not my girlfriend," and I am having to guess which it is with a series of questions that he can only ans.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 24e8a7b | Rise up smiling, and walk with me. Rise up in the armor of thy body and what shall pass shall make thee unafraid. Walk among the yellow hills, for they belong to thee. Walk upon grass and let thy feet descend into soft soil; in the end when all has failed thee the soil shall comfort thee, the soil shall receive thee and in thy dark bed thou shalt find such peace as is thy portion. In thine armor, hear my voice. In thine armor, hear. Whatsoe.. | philisophy religion | Michael Shaara | |
| 1646a99 | Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 7578275 | He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering. | Michael Shaara | ||
| dbd291f | The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land. | Michael Shaara | ||
| bd3138f | I tell you, Colonel, we got to win this war. What will happen, do you think, if we lose? Do you think the country will ever get back together again? Doubt it. Would it too deep. The differences. . .If they win there'll be two countries, like France and Germany in Europe, and the border will be armed. Then there'll be a third country in the West, and that one will be the balance of power. | Michael Shaara | ||
| aa3f66b | Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel. | Michael Shaara | ||
| f1caf4e | I like rainbows. We came back down to the meadow near the steaming terrace and sat in the river, just where one of the bigger hot streams poured into the cold water of the Ferris Fork. It is illegal - not to say suicidal - to bathe in any of the thermal features of the park. But when those features empty into the river, at what is called a hot pot, swimming and soaking are perfectly acceptable. So we were soaking off our long walk, talking .. | moonbows yellowstone | Tim Cahill | |
| cefe633 | democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders; | Robert A. Dahl | ||
| cd2d1eb | Allez-vous au plus vite - crac ! Oh, desole, laissez-moi vous mettre une attelle, monsieur. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 9d3f9d2 | That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. "Stop all saying at the same time." | Emma Donoghue |