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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be2b346 | If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 79ab71d | Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0456212 | The with forbidden the death of warriors | Laurence Yep | ||
| ab19fe8 | If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind." "Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things lately," Leech said. "Enjoy it." "Oog, and double oog," was all Koko could say." | Laurence Yep | ||
| ee0f2cf | Madre mia, cuantos castillos en el aire haciamos, escribio Micha mas tarde. La situacion habria podido seguir asi enternamente. Era como para vomitar sin pausa, pero nosotros nos divertiamos a lo grande. Eramos todos tan listos, tan leidos, teniamos tanto interes..., pero el resultado era estupido. Nos precipitabamos hacia el futuro, pero eramos tan del pasado... Dios mio, que ridiculos eramos, y ni siquiera nos dabamos cuenta. | past reflexions | Thomas Brussig | |
| 210cf04 | Quien de verdad quiera conservar en la memoria lo sucedido, no debe entregarse a los recuerdos. El recuerdo humano es un proceso demasiado agradable como para retener el pasado; es lo contrario de lo que pretende ser. Porque el recuerdo puede mas, mucho mas: realiza con tenacidad el milagro de concertar la paz con el tiempo ido, en la que se volatiliza cualquier asomo de rencor y el blando velo de la nostalgia se deposita sobre todo lo que .. | memories nostalgia reflexions | Thomas Brussig | |
| 86c1b25 | El Pelos, cuando le preguntaron en clase de Fisica por las tres reglas de conducta en caso de detonacion nuclear, contesto: - Primero: mirar, porque un espectaculo asi solo se ve una vez en la vida. Segundo: tumbarme y reptar hasta el cementerio mas proximo, y tercero y principal: hacerlo despacio, para que no cunda el panico. Le cascaron un cuatro, pero no le impusieron una contribucion al debate. | humor nuclear-bomb | Thomas Brussig | |
| 6716d3c | She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii." "Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off Christmas card list." | Laurence Yep | ||
| 3d9478f | Scientists say that if the bombs drop again, no one will win because no one will survive. All life on Earth will end. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 5ca713f | And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world peace. The atom bomb is too terrible a weapon. It must not drop again. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 3a704f3 | what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. | judgment memory | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 680b4b6 | How one in the modern world views Jesus's miraculous actions is irrelevant. All that can be known is how the people of his time viewed them. And therein lies the historical evidence. For while debates raged within the early church over who Jesus was--a rabbi? the messiah? God incarnate?--there was never any debate, either among his followers or his detractors, about his role as an exorcist and miracle worker. | miracles | Reza Aslan | |
| 2fb450f | For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it. | historical-jesus scholarship | Reza Aslan | |
| 0aa61a3 | My hope with this book is to spread the good news of the Jesus of history with the same fervor that I once applied to spreading the story of the Christ. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 4cd1c5b | Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you. | Reza Aslan | ||
| fb76a5b | the famed French theorist Ernest Renan, who years ago defined the nation as "a group of people united in a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors." | Reza Aslan | ||
| fe149de | One day, while he was idly reciting his verses to a captive audience, a scrap of paper, borne by the wind, landed on his lap. On it were written two words: "Layla" and "Majnun." As the crowd watched, Majnun tore the paper in half. The half on which was written "Layla" he crumpled into a ball and threw over his shoulder; the half with his own name he kept for himself. "What does this mean?" someone asked. "Do you not realize that one name is.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| ee6af87 | While the exact changes Muhammad made to this tradition are far too complex to discuss in detail here, it is sufficient to note that women in the Ummah were, for the first time, given the right both to inherit the property of their husbands and to keep their dowries as their own personal property throughout their marriage. Muhammad also forbade a husband to touch his wife's dowry, forcing him instead to provide for his family from his own w.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| fdacafc | Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into primordial time and whose branches weave in and out of genuine history with little concern for the boundaries of space and time. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 76ecc1c | There is a term for this phenomenon--politicomorphism, or "the divinization of earthly politics"--and it is, to this day, one of the central features of nearly every religious system in the world." | Reza Aslan | ||
| d637d01 | It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols--bigotry and fanaticism--worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. 1" | Reza Aslan | ||
| da44720 | The only way to survive in a community where movement was the norm and material accumulation impractical was to maintain a strong sense on tribal solidarity by evenly sharing all available resources. | nomads tribe | Reza Aslan | |
| 0cdddf5 | the gospels are not, nor were they ever meant to be, a historical documentation of Jesus's life. These are not eyewitness accounts of Jesus's words and deeds recorded by people who knew him. They are testimonies of faith composed by communities of faith and written many years after the events they describe. Simply put, the gospels tell us about Jesus the Christ, not Jesus the man. | Reza Aslan | ||
| a6633d1 | Crucifixion was a punishment that Rome reserved almost exclusively for the crime of sedition. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 5f4cacd | Those who did know Jesus - those who followed him into Jerusalem as its king and helped him cleanse the Temple in God's name, who were there when he was arrested and who watched him die a lonely death - played a surprisingly small role in defining the movement Jesus left behing. | jesus | Reza Aslan | |
| 06a84b3 | Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases | pharaoh resurection | Reza Aslan | |
| b13d09b | The common depiction of Jesus as an inveterate peacemaker who "loved his enemies" and "turned the other cheek" has been built mostly on his portrayal as an apolitical preacher with no interest in or, for that matter, knowledge of politically turbulent world in which he lived. That picture of Jesus has already been shown to be complete fabrication. The Jesus of history had a far more complex attitude toward violence. There is no evidence tha.. | jesus pacifism | Reza Aslan | |
| 8608890 | The gospels claim that on either side of Jesus hung men who in Greek are called lestai, a word often rendered into English as "thieves" but which actually means "bandits" and was the most common Roman designation for an insurrectionist or rebel." | Reza Aslan | ||
| bfb4f24 | But Jesus's message was designed to be a direct challenge to the wealthy and the powerful, be they the occupiers in Rome, the collaborators in the Temple, or the new moneyed class in the Greek cities of Galilee. The message was simple: the Lord God had seen the suffering of the poor and dispossessed; he had heard their cries of anguish. And he was finally going to do something about it | Reza Aslan | ||
| 318c82e | Yet the Kingdom of God in Jesus's teachings is not a celestial kingdom existing on a cosmic plane. Those who claim otherwise often point to a single unreliable passage in the gospel of John in which Jesus allegedly tells Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36). Not only is this the sole passage in the gospels where Jesus makes such a claim, it is an imprecise translation of the original Greek. The phrase ouk estin ek tou kosm.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| e0a3ce5 | Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 549ad55 | It is a shame that this word, myth, which originally signified nothing more than stories of the supernatural, has come to be regarded as synonymous with falsehood, when in fact myths are always true. By their very nature, myths inhere both legitimacy and credibility. Whatever truths they convey have little to do with historical fact. | Reza Aslan | ||
| b98a386 | solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties. | Reza Aslan | ||
| a5e2591 | It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth. The itinerant preacher wandering from village to village clamoring about the end of the world, a band of ragged followers trailing behind, was a common sight in Jesus's time--so common, in fact, that it had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite. | Reza Aslan | ||
| fdf69af | The very term "theocracy" was coined specifically to describe Jerusalem." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 6b2e252 | In the words of the Iranian political philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, "We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 9b366c0 | The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader, "we." The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, "Go"; the leader says, "Let's go!" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bf7e207 | There is absolutely nothing divine about the Shariah and in no way can it possibly be considered fixed and infallible. The argument that the Shariah derives its divine nature from its first and primary source, the Quran, falls flat when one recognizes that the Quran, unlike the Torah, is not a book of laws. The Quran is God's direct self-revelation to humanity. Certainly, it contains the moral framework for living a holy and righteous life .. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 69eb2fc | The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no Caliph would have religious authority over the community." | Reza Aslan | ||
| db67b39 | He was a man of profound contradictions, one day preaching a message of racial exclusion ("I was sent solely to the lost sheep of Israel"; Matthew 15:24), the next, of benevolent universalism ("Go and make disciples of all nations"; Matthew 28:19); sometimes calling for unconditional peace ("Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God"; Matthew 5:9), sometimes promoting violence and conflict ("If you do not have a s.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 414ea2e | The reformation of Christianity was a terrifying process, but it was not, as it has so often been presented, a collision between Protestant reform and Catholic intransigence. Rather, the Christian Reformation was an argument over the future of the faith--a violent, bloody argument that engulfed Europe in devastation and war for more than a century. | Reza Aslan | ||
| b144c7f | Por lo tanto, un relato inventado por Marcos, con propositos estrictamente evangelizadores, para absolver a Roma de toda culpa por la muerte de Jesus, se amplia hasta el punto del absurdo, convirtiendose con el transcurso del tiempo en la base para dos mil anos de antisemitismo cristiano. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 80741b5 | Luke means that Jesus is the new David, the King of the Jews, placed on God's throne to rule over the Promised Land. Simply put, the infancy narratives in the gospels are not historical accounts, nor were they meant to be read as such. They are theological affirmations of Jesus's status as the anointed of God. The descendant of King David. The promised messiah. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 12a075e | The bandits tapped into the widespread apocalyptic expectation that had gripped the Jews of Palestine in the wake of the Roman invasion. | Reza Aslan |