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| 8aa4201 | He turned to pull the door closed and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again. As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying, scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him. | inspirational | Jack Finney | |
| 68e0876 | I saw my father's wooden filing cabinet, his framed diplomas stacked on top of it, just as they'd been brought from his office. In that cabinet lay records of the colds, cut fingers, cancers, broken bones, mumps, diphtheria, births and deaths of a large part of Mill Valley for over two generations. Half the patients listed in those files were dead now, the wounds and tissue my father had treated only dust. | Jack Finney | ||
| e09674c | inserted | Jack Finney | ||
| 65d0e76 | the very moment you are caught, there is always a chance. | Jack Finney | ||
| df64ff3 | I wrapped his pistol in his cap, and with the butt of the gun--not the end of the butt, but the side--hit him hard on the head. You read a lot about people being hit on the head and knocked out, but you don't read much about blood clots in the brain. In actual fact, though, it's a delicate matter, hitting a man on the head, | Jack Finney | ||
| 624e911 | Set flush in the wall behind the desk was a steel door. It was knobless, and along one edge were three brass keyholes spaced a few inches apart. Rube brought out a key ring, selected a key, then walked around the desk, inserted the key in the topmost lock, and turned it. From his watch pocket he took a single key, pushed it into the middle keyhole, and turned. The guard stood waiting beside him, and now the guard inserted a key in the botto.. | Jack Finney | ||
| cb1f143 | atheism, which is mere emptiness and too depressing for words, and leads to socialism. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 23bfc6b | When I was a young college teacher in my mid-twenties, an older colleague delighted in characterizing post-Enlightenment theology as "flat-tire theology"--"All the pneuma has gone out of it." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 1c554b5 | rather than God being "out there" in the heights, God is known in the depths of personal experience." | spirituality religion philosophy | Marcus J. Borg | |
| 3df5d42 | Resurrection" does not mean resumption of previous existence but entry into a different kind of existence." | spirituality religion philosophy | Marcus J. Borg | |
| 142dc4c | Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 18c7339 | an introduction to Christian pluralism and the intellectual riches of the Christian tradition, but also to intellectual pluralism. I realized that there were no definitely settled ways of seeing life--of what is, what is real, and how, then, we should live. The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| d9823c6 | theological objections to an emphasis on an afterlife are about how such an emphasis affects Christianity. Note the word emphasis. My claim is not that believing in an afterlife intrinsically produces these results. Rather, I am describing what happens when the afterlife is emphasized in Christian preaching, teaching, and evangelism. It seriously distorts what Christianity is about and what it means to be Christian. It does this in several .. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| fac99dd | Stories can be true without being literally and factually true. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| f607fcb | Indeed, for Christians, the unending conversation about Jesus is the most important conversation there is. He is for us the decisive revelation of God--of what can be seen of God's character and passion in a human life. There are other important conversations. But for followers of Jesus, the unending conversation about Jesus is the conversation that matters most. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 8182347 | The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 89f931a | about? What's salvation all about? My answer to that question now, my conviction now: "it"--Christianity and salvation--is about transformation this side of death. The natural effect of growing up, beginning in childhood, is that we fall into bondage to cultural messages and conventions; experience separation and exile from the one in whom we live and move and have our being; become blinded by habituated ways of seeing and live in the dark,.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 266bdd9 | To believe in a person is quite different from believing that a series of statements about the person are true. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 53b88ad | This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| ef9b814 | Two transformations are at the center of this life. For want of better language, I call them the personal and the political. The Christian life is about personal transformation into the likeness of Christ (from one degree to another, as Paul puts it); and it is about participation in God's passion for the kingdom of God. The personal and the political are brought together in "the way of the cross"--an image of personal transformation and co.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| c6a08a6 | In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables--provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 44a569b | One scenario begins by imagining that Jesus heals somebody in a village. What is the likely response, beyond amazement and gratitude? He (and those with him) would be invited to a meal. It is the classic ancient way of expressing gratitude and hospitality. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 32e7a7e | To state the obvious, how we see is to a large extent the product of what we have seen. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| d809074 | Christians also speak of the Bible as the revelation of God, indeed as the "Word of God." Yet orthodox Christian theology from ancient times has affirmed that the decisive revelation of God is Jesus. The Bible is "the Word" become words, God's revelation in human words; Jesus is "the Word" become flesh, God's revelation in a human life. Thus Jesus is more decisive than the Bible." -- | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 9684aa2 | Because modern critical thinking is corrosive of conventional religious beliefs, some Christians reject applying it to the Bible and Christianity. The result is fundamentalism and much of conservative Christianity, which holds that regardless of the claims of modern knowledge, the Bible and Christianity are true--and not just true, but factually true. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 2e5621e | The terrible truth is that our world has never established peace through victory. Victory establishes not peace, but lull. Thereafter, violence returns once again, and always worse than before. And it is that escalator violence that then endangers our world. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 4a7c907 | We face a similar choice each Christmas, and so each Advent is a time of repentance for the past and change for the future. Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| b711a12 | The focus of a politics of compassion is the alleviation of suffering caused by social structures. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 95db0e3 | The word "sacrament" also has a broader meaning. In the study of religion, a sacrament is commonly defined as a mediator of the sacred, a vehicle by which God becomes present, a means through which the Spirit is experienced." | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 7f25761 | The point: only a small minority of Christians and for only a brief period of time have taught biblical inerrancy and the sole authority of the Bible. So how and why has it become "orthodox" Christianity for about half of American Protestants?" | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 9958776 | Images of Jesus give content to what loyalty to him means. The popular picture of Jesus as one whose purpose was to proclaim truths about himself most often construes loyalty to him as insistence on the truth of those claims. Loyalty becomes belief in the historical truthfulness of all the statements in the gospels. Discipleship is then easily confused with dogmatism or doctrinal orthodoxy. The absence of an image - the most common fruit of.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 36ad510 | God's dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 1d831cc | Importantly, the issue as we describe the wealthy and powerful is not whether they--in our case, the Jerusalem authorities centered in the temple--were "corrupt," if by that we mean an individual failing. As individuals, the wealthy and powerful can be good people--responsible, honest, hard-working, faithful to family and friends, interesting, charming, and good-hearted. The issue is not their individual virtue or wickedness, but the role t.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| b6fc5c3 | God has always been in relationship to us, journeying with us, and yearning to be known by us. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 1173483 | Believe me," Dr. Tamalet summed up, "if you wanted that operation in France, you could get it" Which is, of course, the boon and the bane of France's health care system. It offers a maximum of free choice among skillful doctors and well-equipped hospitals, with little or not waiting, at bargain-basement prices [in out-of-pocket terms to the consumer]. It's a system that enables the French to live longer and healthier lives, with zero risk o.. | T.R. Reid | ||
| a501993 | One reason (though not the main one) is that American health care "providers"--doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies--make more money for what they do than their counterparts overseas do." | T.R. Reid | ||
| 05e0777 | When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much--sometimes ten times as much--as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory. | T.R. Reid | ||
| 01b68f4 | Von Kockritz's entire higher education was free. She considers that perfectly normal--and in Europe, it is. | T.R. Reid | ||
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| 724b22d | the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Pilsudski. | Norman Davies | ||
| b880a22 | The big question about the hunter-gatherers, therefore, does not seem to be 'How did they progress towards the higher level of an agricultural and politicised society?' but 'What persuaded them to abandon the secure, well-provided and psychologically liberating advantages of their primordial lifestyle?'.1 | Norman Davies | ||
| 431c381 | Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. | Norman Davies | ||
| f7ed4d9 | Every 30 seconds, it transmitted portions of [a Chopin Polonaise] to tell the world that the capital was still in Polish hands. Angered by the unexpected setback, the German High Command decided to pound the stubborn citadel into submission. In round-the-clock raids, bombers knocked out flourmills, gasworks, power plants and reservoirs, then sowed the residential areas with incendiaries. One witness, passing scenes of carnage, enumerated th.. | Norman Davies | ||
| 5056d69 | That the United Kingdom will collapse is a foregone conclusion. Sooner or later, all states do collapse, and ramshackle, asymmetric dynastic amalgamations are more vulnerable than cohesive nation-states. Only the 'how' and the 'when' are mysteries of the future. An exhaustive study of the many pillars on which British power and prestige were built - ranging from the monarchy, the Royal Navy and the Empire to the Protestant Ascendancy, the I.. | Norman Davies |