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| a02e1ea | In the story of the Good Samaritan,] everybody knows the robber is bad--but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are 'righteous' in a superficial way. They don't rob anybody. They're not like that lousy criminal who is over here, on the bad end of the line. Do you see it? That's the line we modern Christians try to live on the right end of it . . . The Samaritan tra.. | goodness righteous righteousness | Brian D. McLaren | |
| 60ef4fe | To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighbor means recognizing that there are ultimately no strangers. . . . Everybody is my neighbor! . . . Everybody is my brother! . . . There are no isolated monads wounded on the other side of the street! . . . We're all connected. | good-samaritan goodness neighbor righteousness | Brian D. McLaren | |
| d341921 | Because if anything is clear in the aftermath of the Reformation, it has to be this: we human beings can interpret the Bible to say and mean an awful lot of different things. We can very easily confuse "The Bible says" with "I say the Bible says," which we can then equate with "God says." | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 839dd5c | Can you imagine Jesus saying, "Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that's why! And if you don't believe, then you're going straight to hell!" But isn't that how we present him through our slogans?" | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| dea5827 | What is the most significant conversation you have every day?" People would respond piously, "Your conversation with God, of course." "No," Lewis would reply. "It's the conversation you have with yourself before you speak to God, because in that conversation with yourself, you decide whether you are going to be honest and authentic with God, or whether you are going to meet God with a false face, a mask, an act, a pretense." | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 006922a | what today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough... | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 12bc31a | Who do we think we are -- we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we ha.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 56cec22 | Spiritual practices are ways of becoming awake and staying awake to God. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| f794a2a | In other words, when the community of faith gathers, its purpose is to equip its members for a life of love and good deeds when the community scatters. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 3e4a20c | If I could seriously ponder ending my life, then I can do anything. I can change anything in my life. So instead of ending my life altogether, I'll end my life as I've been living it and start a new kind of life. I can now see a third alternative to the status quo and suicide. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 9e9cca7 | When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| e64afd5 | Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 78e7af4 | The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way? | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 75a381e | He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou... ("Footnote to All Prayers") Lewis proceeds to acknowledge that when he says the Name of God, his best thoughts are mere fancies and symbols, which he knows "cannot be the thing thou art." Then with postmodern sensitivity, Lewis ponders the inadequacy of human language and perspective: And all men are idolators, crying unheard To a deaf idol, if Th.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| 9fcbd61 | My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 84a1f8c | That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8e6bde7 | I have no idea what cunnilingus is - certainly no one I've met in Wolverhampton can afford it. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e269ab5 | Kun kyynisyydesta tulee oletuskieli, leikkisyys ja kekseliaisyys katoavat. Kyynisyys jynssaa kulttuurin kuin kloori, se pyyhkii pois miljoonia pienia, orastavia ideoita. Kyynisyyden vastaus kaikkeen on "ei". Kyynisyys saa olettamaan, etta pettymys on vaistamaton. Ja tama on perimmiltaan syys siihen, miksi ihmisista tulee kyynisia. He pelkaavat pettymyksia. He pelkaavat, etta joku kayttaa heita hyvakseen. He pelkaavat, etta heidan viattomuut.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7d2ef59 | THERE ARE MEN OUT THERE HAVING SEX WITH BICYCLES. Men don't remotely care if you're wearing sexy underpants or not. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 495506c | Cynicism is, ultimately, fear. Cynicism makes contact with your skin, and a thick black carapace begins to grow--like insect armor. This armor will protect your heart, from disappointment--but it leaves you almost unable to walk. You cannot dance in this armor. Cynicism keeps you pinned to the spot, in the same posture, forever. And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and d.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d142212 | Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 percent and leave your bins unemptied on the pavement. But you and everyone you know will continue to drink wine-- but maybe cheaper-- go on holiday-- but somewhere nearer-- and pay off your mortgage--although maybe later. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 027020b | Friends, we live in a caffeine world. We think in a caffeine way and we live caffeine lives. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d8e3626 | Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 55cef65 | And how are . . . Mummy's stitches?" This, I was slightly thrown by. I knew my mother had had forty-two stitches after the birth, and that she was washing the stitches every day with warm salty water--she made me go and get the warm salty water--but she hadn't passed on much more information about her vagina than that. I knew from Spiritual Midwifery (Ina May Gaskin, Book Pub Co., 1977) that postpartum women were often loath to share the de.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d98f7e3 | Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth- every day I have ever had- was secretly sunny after all....I feel like I've just flown 600 miles per hour head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the c.. | hope summer | Caitlin Moran | |
| cb2caf7 | imagine what we'll be able to build when we really need something. When the floods start, and the graphs spike red, and we panic. When the last tiger dies, followed by the last polar bear, and the last song thrush, and we are alone - feeling the terrible melancholy, and dishonour, of being the only species left on the planet. Then - when the apocalypse arrives, finally, on our doorstep - we will galvanise, and raise forests, and refreeze th.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| fef4df3 | My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it | Caitlin Moran | ||
| c409994 | And later, over a glass of wine -- because you drink wine now, because you are grown -- you will marvel over what you did. Marvel that, at the time, you kept so many secrets. Tried to keep the secret of yourself. Tried to metamorphose in the dark. The loud, drunken, fucking, eyeliner-smeared, laughing, cutting, panicking, unbearably present secret of yourself. When really you were about as secret as the moon. And as luminous, under all thos.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 46c3b0a | In short, how can you tell when some sexism is happening to you? Well, in this matter, what ultimately aids us is to simply apply this question to the issues: Is this polite? If we--the entire population of the earth, male and female alike--are just, essentially, 'the guys,' then was one of the guys just...uncouth to a fellow guy? Don't call it sexism. Call it 'manners' instead. When a woman blinks a little, shakes her head like Columbo, an.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7917503 | your midthirties...is the age that women usually start to feel confident. Having finally left behind the...awfulness of your twenties...your thirties are the point where the good stuff kicks in...How odd, then, that as your face and body finally begin to display the signs (lines, softening, gray hairs) that you've entered the zone of kick-ass eminence and intolerance of dullards, there should be pressure for you to...totally remove them. Gi.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d02ddf1 | Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts. | empowerment songs women | Caitlin Moran | |
| c0d0e5a | It demeans a society to rely on random acts of mercy, Johanna. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 64465ce | She is also my only friend--apart from Emily Pagett, who reminds me of Baba in The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien, Hutchinson, 1962), in that she often spreads lies about me--but which I tolerate, because she also tells me gossip about other people, which is fascinating. Even if it's also not true. I recognize that ultimately you have make your own amusement. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3cd4d70 | I can assure you--we have a lot of experience in being amateur!" I say when she mentions the "amateur experience." She doesn't laugh. No one ever laughs when I make these kinds of jokes. When Bill Murray says shit like this, people completely lose it. I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 499781e | Musicals are strictly for homosexuals and womenfolk," Kenny says drily, in a way that's so post-post-post-ironic it actually stops being communication, and simply becomes confusing and unhelpful." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 378a0be | This is Pat," he says, introducing me to a man who is also drunk. "Because I'm Pat too! We're two Pats! He's a Protestant," he adds in a stagy whisper, "but we've sorted it all out." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 12d34e5 | Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies. | pregnancy sexism world | Caitlin Moran | |
| 1af86e5 | Algun dia encontraras una version de ti misma que hara que te besen, o que te granjeara amistades, o que te inspirara, y tu tomaras buena nota: te quedaras toda la noche, afinando, y luego improvisaras a partir de un breve fragmento de melodia que funciono. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| cb7451a | I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth--every day I have ever had--was secretly sunny, after all. However shitty and rainy it is in Wolverhampton--on the days where the clouds feel low, like a lid, and the swarf bubbles and the gutters churn to digest--it's always been sunny up here. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f0df4c8 | I was holding his hand. I banked every jealous look, and became limitlessly wealthy on them. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b9a3d9a | Every time your heart gets broken, breathe deep - it grows bigger as it mends. Imagine each line of red scar tissue on it with pride - the same pride you'll one day have for stretch marks on your belly, after having a baby. Skin and hearts tear to make great things. Don't be afraid. 8) | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 22f40f3 | If I'd had to guess, before, what "being pissed" felt like, I would never have guessed this unusual result: your knees feel warm, and your anxiety alchemizes down into something syrupy, and pleasant, and malleable. Like all medicines, it tastes revolting--but it makes you better. It makes you better." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f6301b5 | Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making.. | children decision sexism woman | Caitlin Moran | |
| 1d521d9 | As I've not been kissed before, I'm not really sure how you activate this function on a man. | Caitlin Moran |