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| 56991f9 | For as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace, of all that is beautiful and womanly an equal part, given to them because they are women in defense of their womaness. And this barrier a man will find against him to turn aside his male attack, keep his arms pinned, stop his mouth, cool his eyes, reduc.. | trust womaness womanly women | Richard Llewellyn | |
| fe0d7bf | There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors. | class equality | Richard Llewellyn | |
| d0bd2f5 | My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God. | social-gospel social-justice | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 2270842 | The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards. | discipleship initiative leadership | Richard Llewellyn | |
| f6339d4 | The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was. | Richard Llewellyn | ||
| 429a41b | You know your Bible too well and life too little. | discretion maturity this-tournament zeal | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 1f48623 | You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again. | meditation prayer worry | Richard Llewellyn | |
| 01627e1 | T]here is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. | Richard Llewellyn | ||
| 1e79433 | There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better. | John Brunner | ||
| 3351327 | Relationship building at a distance, through the filter of a computer, is ultimately ineffective for the sincere friend seeker, but it is ideally suited to the sociopath whose powers of manipulation are enhanced when he can operate not merely behind his usual masks but behind an electronic mask as well. | Jack Finney | ||
| accc098 | She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty. | Jack Finney | ||
| c0be062 | And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons. | Jack Finney | ||
| 84bec01 | You live in the same kind of grayness as the filthy stuff that formed you. | Jack Finney | ||
| 27c05ef | But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind. They don't teach that at medical school, but it's as important as your stethoscope. | Jack Finney | ||
| faacbd9 | Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time. | Jack Finney | ||
| 623fce4 | My stubborn little witch," he said softly. "Don't believe for a clockwork minute that you are unlovable. If I were a mortal, a man not doomed to walk the earth as a haunted specter, I would be the first suitor in line. Please believe that." She hiccupped. "You... you'd want to court me?" Jack laughed. "Court you? I'd follow you around like Finney and stare at you all moony-eyed. I'd spend my days fending off your other would-be suitors, m.. | halloween mad-scientist paranormal pumpkins romance vampires witches ya | Colleen Houck | |
| 10c0038 | Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related tasks than ever before, as we spin like squirrels in exercise cages, desperate to keep current with change and therefore employable. | Jack Finney | ||
| d2b0a62 | And to belove God, to center in God, has an additional crucial meaning. To belove God means to love what God loves. What does God love? The answer is in one of the most familiar Bible verses, John 3.16: "God so loved the world..." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| c1566d3 | But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 9678bc7 | Other prophets, other messiahs, came and went in Jesus' day. Routinely, they died violently at the hands of the pagan enemy. Their movements either died with them, sometimes literally, or transformed themselves into a new movement around a new leader. Jesus' movement did neither. Within days of his execution it found a new lease of life; within weeks it was announcing that he was indeed the messiah; within a year or two it was proclaiming h.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 0ae024e | Humanity's universal sin is far, far worse than those traditional vice lists cited for Greeks and Jews by Paul in Romans 1-3. It is this: we have accepted violence as civilization's drug of choice, and our addiction now threatens creation itself. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 10307b9 | For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| a7d4d8c | That Christian faith is about belief is a rather odd notion, when you think about it. It suggests that what God really cares about is the beliefs in our heads-- as if "believing the right things" is what God is most looking for, as if having "correct beliefs" is what will save us. And if you have "incorrect beliefs," you may be in trouble. It's remarkable to think that God cares so much about "beliefs." Moreover, when you think about it, fa.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| db18481 | I conclude this section with a possibly puzzling postscript on the meaning of the word "literal." What is the literal meaning of a parable? Its literal meaning is its parabolic meaning. What is the literal meaning of a poem? Its literal meaning is its poetic meaning. What is the literal meaning of a symbolic or metaphorical narrative? Its literal meaning is its symbolic or metaphorical meaning. But in modern Western culture over the last fe.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| e3014f0 | Being Christian doesn't mean being anti-American, but it does mean that Christian identity and loyalty matter more than national identity and loyalty. When there is a conflict, Jesus is Lord. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| d5359a2 | S]in in popular Christianity is often understood individualistically, obscuring the reality of "social sin." An emphasis upon sin most often leads to introspection about what I have done wrong. Of course, such introspection can be helpful, but it clouds the fact that much of human suffering and misery is not because of our individual sins, but because of collective sin. For example, when it is emphasized that Jesus "died for our sins" (and .. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| ebb1ff5 | In the modern period, the alliance between Christianity and the political order continues to some extent. But even more so, the dream of God has been submerged by the individualism that characterizes much of modern Western culture. The dream of God is quite different from contemporary American dreams. The dream of God - a politics of compassion and justice, the kingdom of God, a domination-free order - is social, communal, and egalitarian. .. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 261c460 | By the time I began college, anxiety about hell had disappeared--not because I was confident that I was "saved," but because the whole package had become sufficiently uncertain that I didn't worry about it." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 7fc76ce | The four-week period of Advent before Christmas--and the six-week period of Lent before Easter--are times of penance and life change for Christians. In our book The Last Week, we suggested that Lent was a penance time for having been in the wrong procession and a preparation time for moving over to the right one by Palm Sunday. That day's violent procession of the horse-mounted Pilate and his soldiers was contrasted with the nonviolent proc.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 979689a | The first phrase affirms "God so loved the world"--not Christians in particular, or the elect, or the church, but the world. God's passion is the world. Christians have often been fearful of loving the world, for they have sometimes confused it with "worldliness." But loving the world doesn't mean getting lost in the world. It means loving the world--the creation--as God loves the world." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| ae1cb23 | We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of and in opposition to other societies and civilizations. Many of us even grew up believing that this West has a genealogy, according to which ancient Greece begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe, Christian Europe begat the Renaissance, the Renaissance.. | history | Eric R. Wolf | |
| 5495915 | Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama's mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman's Marshall Plan as a "device" for maintaining "white imperialism." Truman and Marshall, he wrote, were using "billions of U.S. dollars to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions." Indeed the objective of America after World War II was "to .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| cc59bac | To make his point, Ivan staged a sensational demonstration. Some time before Christmas he had arrested two Lithuanians employed in the Moscow Kremlin. He charged them with plotting to poison him. The accusations against Jan Lukhomski and Maciej the Pole did not sound very credible; but their guilt or innocence was hardly relevant. They were held in an open cage on the frozen Moskva River for all the world to see; and on the eve of the depar.. | history lithuania | Norman Davies | |
| d4ce86c | Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith. | Norman Davies | ||
| 3c9c458 | Wczesniej czy pozniej dekonstrukcjonistow zdekonstruuja ich wlasne metody. "Przezylismy Smierc Boga i Smierc Czlowieka. Z pewnoscia przezyjemy takze Smierc Historii... i Smierc Postmodernizmu." | Norman Davies | ||
| d32e4e4 | An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. | Norman Davies | ||
| d0cb89f | Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature . . . | Norman Davies | ||
| ccd5896 | Looking back, Colleen and Neal have somewhat different perspectives. . . . She remembers she "was impressed that he seemed to have so much charisma. People were looking to him for answers and just had a great regard for him." Then Neal adds, "So much charisma [that] she turned me down when I first asked her for a date." Fortunately for both, he called again, and this time she said yes. . . . Colleen found herself increasingly drawn to him. .. | Bruce C. Hafen | ||
| a5fd2cd | In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret. | Chalmers Johnson | ||
| aa6372d | The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split. | aphorism navarth | Jack Vance | |
| 1d2ac50 | The forest of Tantrevalles shades a deep dank soil; somewhere under this mold lies the carcass of a snake which in better times used the name Visbhume; he no longer tippety-taps and moves and jerks to the rhythms of a propulsive inner music; and sometimes one wonders in cases like this: here is the dead thing; where has the music gone? | Jack Vance | ||
| f79fca1 | Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to these basic enemies." -- Xaviar Skolcamp, Over-Centennial Fellow of the Institute, indulgently, in response to a journalist's too-searching question" | Jack Vance | ||
| 9633888 | It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough? | Jack Vance | ||
| 64f5d93 | It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently. | philosophy-of-religion religion religion-and-philoshophy | Jack Vance |