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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cafcadf | That the mental experiences of dogs aren't as complex as ours is no reason to dismiss those experiences altogether. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| ad33dfc | Don't feel like a failure if you can't make a social butterfly out of the dog you rescued from a nightmarish beginning. Giving him a kind, loving home and helping him to relax enough to nap in your lap are achievements in their own right. If you can manage them, you deserve much more than a blue ribbon and a silver chalice. However, | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 11af7ff | If barking correlates with a juvenile and submissive condition, then it's doubtful that dogs read our loud vocal displays as dominant or impressive. Rather, they might see them as a sign of fear or as a sign that we don't have a lot of control. Many people to whom dogs are drawn are laconic and soft-spoken. I think their lack of "barking" is perceived as a sign of leadership, and dogs are drawn to their sense of self-confidence." | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| bd2aebd | The next time you see a dog you'd like to greet, stop a few feet away, stand sideways rather than straight on, and avoid looking directly into her eyes. Wait for the dog to come all the way to you. If she doesn't, she doesn't want to be petted. So don't pet her. It's not really that much to ask. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| d9096bd | in 1969, I still regard Jesus Christ today as the chief focus of my perspective on God but not to the exclusion of other religious perspectives. God's reality is not bound by one manifestation of the divine in Jesus but can be found wherever people are being empowered to fight for freedom. Life-giving power for the poor and the oppressed is the primary criterion that we must use to judge the adequacy of our theology, not abstract concepts. | James H. Cone | ||
| 86130b5 | The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence. | James H. Cone | ||
| cd03774 | takes a whole lot of empathic effort to step into those of black people and see the world through the eyes of African Americans. | James H. Cone | ||
| 9c00a81 | Luke's Gospel was clear: Jesus's ministry was essentially liberation on behalf of the poor and the oppressed. I didn't need a doctorate in theology to know that liberation defined the heart of Jesus's ministry. Black people had been preaching and singing about it for centuries. | James H. Cone | ||
| 4a2a546 | My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black--love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity." | James H. Cone | ||
| a14887e | For Mrs. Bradley, the voice she heard was the voice of the resurrected Jesus. It spoke of hope that, although white racists could take her son's life, they could not deprive his life and death of an ultimate meaning. As in the resurrection of the Crucified One, God could transmute defeat into triumph, ugliness into beauty, despair into hope, the cross into the resurrection. | James H. Cone | ||
| 85ddd7c | The oppressed...have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."6" | James H. Cone | ||
| 002171b | any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian. | James H. Cone | ||
| 2ab9d13 | Suffering naturally gives rise to doubt. How can one believe in God in the face of such horrendous suffering as slavery, segregation, and the lynching tree? Under these circumstances, doubt is not a denial but an integral part of faith. It keeps faith from being sure of itself. But doubt does not have the final word. The final word is faith giving rise to hope. | James H. Cone | ||
| 05ad26b | Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories. | James H. Cone | ||
| 93a3819 | If the Church is to remain faithful to its Lord, it must make a decisive break with the structure of this society by launching a vehement attack on the evils of racism in all forms. It must become prophetic, demanding a radical change in the interlocking structures of this society. This | James H. Cone | ||
| 29199b1 | Black Power, in short, is an attitude, an inward affirmation of the essential worth of blackness. It means that the black man will not be poisoned by the stereotypes that others have of him, but will affirm from the depth of his soul : "Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." 16 And "if the white man challenges my humanity, I will impose my whole weight as a man on his life and show him that I am not that `sho good eatin' that he .. | James H. Cone | ||
| 1320b66 | find myself suddenly in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone: That of demanding human behavior from the other. One duty alone: That of not renouncing my freedom through my choices.18 | James H. Cone | ||
| 39ddfa1 | I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation? | James H. Cone | ||
| 8370341 | For most evangelicals, revelation was found in the inerrant scriptures, and one need not look elsewhere. I knew in my gut that God's revelation was found among poor black people. | James H. Cone | ||
| 2f0564b | The lynching tree--so strikingly similar to the cross on Golgotha--should have a prominent place in American images of Jesus' death. But it does not. In fact, the lynching tree has no place in American theological reflections about Jesus' cross or in the proclamation of Christian churches about his Passion. The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since .. | James H. Cone | ||
| 5b78bcd | If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. | James H. Cone | ||
| c0a7b0d | Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth. | James H. Cone | ||
| 2a6b006 | Wooing one's wife might require more effort than he'd originally anticipated, but the hunt invigorated him. He might have to continue the abduction tradition even after she was fully his. Keep things interesting. | Karen Witemeyer | ||
| 6332905 | Even almost bad poetry is better than life | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 55c4734 | And in the town too were innumerable white cantinhas, where one could drink forever on credit, with the door open and the wind blowing. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 30d14f2 | SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 067afcd | Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing, | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| fc2bd47 | Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey." | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 839d3f7 | And the earth itself still turning on its axis and revolving around that sun, the sun revolving around the luminous wheel of this galaxy, the countless unmeasured jewelled wheels of countless unmeasured galaxies, turning, turning, majestically, into infinity, into eternity, through all of which all life ran on--all this, long after she herself was dead, men would still be reading in the night sky, and as the earth turned through those dista.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 82a96d7 | British Columbia, the genteel Siberia, that was neither genteel nor a Siberia, but an undiscovered, perhaps an undiscoverable Paradise | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5196c1d | The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it. | truth | Malcolm Lowry | |
| ef0502c | Black Flowers is the name of that song." Cervantes was about to beckon the man to come in. "It say:--I suffer, because your lips say only lies and they have death in a kiss." | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| a0580aa | Why am I here, says the silence, what have I done, echoes the emptiness, why have I ruined myself in this wilful manner, chuckles the money in the till, why have I been brought so low, wheedles the thoroughfare, to which the only answer was--The square gave him no answer. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 1af63f8 | Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could never deliver nor make agreement to God for, but in his way loved and desired to help, had triumphantly succeeded in pulling himself together. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 6c1a080 | Ah, in how many rooms, upon how many studio couches, among how many books, had they found their own love, their marriage, their life together, a life which, in spite of its many disasters, its total calamity indeed -- and in spite too of any slight element of falsehood in its inception on her side, her marriage partly into the past, into her Anglo-Scottish ancestry, into the visioned empty ghost-whistling castles in Sutherland, into an eman.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| fd28d12 | And yet, he was thinking all over again, and all over again as for the first time, how he had suffered, suffered, suffered without her; indeed such desolation, such a desperate sense of abandonment bereavement, as during this last year without Yvonne, he had never known in his life, unless it was when his mother died. But this present emotion he had never experienced with his mother: this urgent desire to hurt, to provoke, at a time when fo.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 07fe6e2 | Far too soon it had begun to seem too much of a triumph, it had been too good, too horribly unimaginable to lose, impossible finally to bear: it was as if it had become itself its own foreboding that it could not last, a foreboding that was like a presence too, turning his steps towards the taverns again. And how could one begin all over again, as though the Cafe Chagrin, the Farolito, had never been? | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 3f7b8f0 | I am the chief steward of my fate, I am the fireman of my soul. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| a9f51e8 | Closing his eyes again, standing there, glass in hand, he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of the dreadful night inevitably awaiting him whether he drank much more or not, his room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful tumultuous sleep, interrupted by voices which were really dogs barking, or by his own name being continually repeated by imaginary parties arriving, the vicious shouting, th.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 09e9096 | The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards' conquering will upon the Indians. Do you see what I mean? | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5268aef | The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded.. | love nightmare ruins stones | Malcolm Lowry | |
| f0a163e | The Knights Templar have been customarily described as holding large estates that were well-known to the people of their day. Certainly there were many such estates. However it was also true that many of their holdings were much smaller and less well-known. These latter properties also changed hands frequently, making ownership unclear even to their neighbors. Malcolm Barber, a well-respected chronicler of the Templars, noted that: ...the O.. | Sanford Holst | ||
| 0527ffc | In many ways, the system of government, taxation and military organization developed by the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the envy of Western Europe. | Noel Malcolm | ||
| ff65604 | Religion mattered at a deep level, which must help to explain why none of these people went over to Islam; but in most cases it did not direct their lives, nor did it prevent some of them from cultivating their connection with a powerful relative who was a Muslim convert. Whilst the fact that they were Catholics from one of Christendom's frontier zones may have given them an enhanced sense of their Catholicism, the fact that they were Alban.. | albanian catholics christianity convert muslims ottoman religion | Noel Malcolm |