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| 9d35dbc | Even in the best of times, when we're not stressed or needy, many of us enjoy petting our dogs as much as any other aspect of dog ownership. This is not a trivial need. Quiet stroking can significantly change your body's physiology, lowering your heart rate and blood pressure. It releases endogenous opiates, or internal chemicals that calm and soothe us and play a significant role in good health. Lucky for us, most of our dogs adore being t.. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| 16ab305 | As a matter of fact, the universal tendency of adult domestic dogs to bark is one of the many behavioral markers that suggests that adult dogs are actually a juvenilized version of adult wolves. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| aadb7f4 | Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability. | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| b2e19eb | 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 | Patricia B. McConnell | ||
| f216009 | They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them. | James H. Cone | ||
| fa904f9 | I don't sleep, have not slept in sixteen years-- | Lawrence Block | ||
| 06296a5 | The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology and any genuine preaching of the Christian gospel must be measured against the test of the scandal of the cross and the lynching tree. 'Jesus did not die a gentle death like Socrates, with his cup of hemlock....Rather, he died like a [lynched blac.. | jesus lynching the-cross | James H. Cone | |
| d866bf2 | To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are."6 To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation." | James H. Cone | ||
| 695217d | I wanted to construct a black theology--a theology that would be black like Malcolm and Christian like Martin. | James H. Cone | ||
| a740e0e | I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian. | James H. Cone | ||
| 772d7d3 | Christian theology is for the liberation of all humanity, and it could never be neutral in the fight against oppression. That much I knew. And that was how A Black Theology of Liberation was born: with the spirit of Martin and Malcolm, Jimmy, and the black poets of the 1960s. | James H. Cone | ||
| 626f2b0 | It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor? | James H. Cone | ||
| bd2ff87 | When he sent a manuscript of The Irony of American History to his historian friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Schlesinger called Niebuhr's attention to the glaring omission of the Negro: One irony deserving comment somewhere perhaps is the relationship between our democratic and equalitarian pretensions and our treatment of the Negro. This remains, John Quincy Adams called it in 1820, "the great and foul stain upon the North American Union"; a.. | James H. Cone | ||
| d362287 | The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last. | James H. Cone | ||
| 91729c4 | While Niebuhr agreed, he did not want to throw out "the white man as white man," and asked "whether there is not a leaven in the other classes that would correspond to the light of truth in the despised minority." Baldwin replied that "I don't mean to say the white people are villains or devils or anything like that," but what "I do mean to say is this: that the bulk of the white . . . Christian majority in this country has exhibited a real.. | James H. Cone | ||
| b6025b6 | Transvaluation of values," a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity's embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr's perspective on the cross." | James H. Cone | ||
| 9d469f5 | If human power in history--among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals--is self-interested power, then "the revelation of divine goodness in history" must be weak and not strong." | James H. Cone | ||
| aba8116 | Just as Martin Luther King Jr. learned much from Reinhold Niebuhr, Niebuhr could have deepened his understanding of the cross by being a student of King and the black freedom movement he led. King could have opened Niebuhr's eyes to see the lynching tree as Jesus' cross in America. White theologians do not normally turn to the black experience to learn about theology. But if the lynching tree is America's cross and if the cross is the heart.. | James H. Cone | ||
| c8e0fac | Epigraph The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American . . . preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century lynching. In the "lynching era," between 1880 and 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the crucifixion of Jesus. . . . As Jesus was an innocent victim of mob hysteria and Roman imperial violence, many Afric.. | William H. Willimon | ||
| 644a83c | What we don't need is central economic planning or new laws, more taxes or fewer good-paying jobs. What we need is something much more difficult to get than a Porsche--character. We need the sort of character that is able to look at the world and all it has to offer and at certain key moments say simply, "Thank you, but I'm now satisfied." It takes a huge amount of moral stamina to be able to say, "Yes, we could afford it, but we are not go.. | William H. Willimon | ||
| b50ca26 | Having no use for such bourgeois virtues as tolerance, open-mindedness, and inclusiveness (which the revolutionary knows are usually cover-ups that allow the powerful to maintain social equilibrium rather than to be confronted and then to change), revolutionaries value honesty and confrontation--painful though they may be. | William H. Willimon | ||
| 7bd71eb | When the only contemporary means of self-transcendence is orgasm, we Christians are going to have a tough time convincing people that it would be nicer if they would not be promiscuous. | William H. Willimon | ||
| 969f809 | The challenge of Jesus is the political dilemma of how to be faithful to a strange community, which is shaped by a story of how God is with us. In this chapter we will challenge the assumption, so prevalent at least since Constantine, that the church is judged politically by how well or ill the church's presence in the world works to the advantage of the world. | William H. Willimon | ||
| a8bef25 | Just let the Pope tell us that our Western middle-class need for uninhibited sexual self-expression is less important to him and the church than the poor of Latin America, and some of our brightest academic ethicists shall attempt to relegate him to the domain of those who are out of it, behind the times. | William H. Willimon | ||
| 249f66d | The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which we cannot when the main social task of the church is to serve as one among many helpful props for the state. | William H. Willimon | ||
| eb90fb0 | Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortes and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma? | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5d338f9 | Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves. | decency fscottfitzgerald inspirational literature malcolmlowry scottfitzgerald | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 7eac382 | Strange Type I wrote: in the dark cavern of our birth. The printer had it tavern, which seems better: But herein lies the subject of our mirth, Since on the next page death appears as dearth. So it may be that God's word was distraction, Which to our strange type appears destruction, Which is bitter. | misprint typo | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 2aa2bd9 | But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after to-morrow? | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 319e306 | Voda je jos cureci u bazen - Boze, kako umrtvljujuce sporo - ispunjavala tisinu izmedu njih...Bilo je tu jos nesto: Konzulu se cinilo da jos cuje glazbu plesa sto mora da je vec davno prestao, i kao da je tu tisinu prozimao uminuli tutanj bubnjeva. Parija: to je znacilo i bubnjeve. Parian. Ta je gotovo opipljivo odsutna glazba bez dvojbe stvarala tako neobicnu iluziju da su se stabla naizgled tresla u taktu s njom, iluziju sto je ne samo vr.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5429515 | For the Love of Dying The tortures of hell are stern, their fires burn fiercely. Yet vultures turn against the air more beautifully than seagulls float downwind in cool sunlight, or fans in asylums spin a loom of fate for hope which never ventured up so high as life's deception, astride the vulture's flight. If death can fly, just for the love of flying, what might not life do, for the love of dying? | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| aa957c6 | Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose was flowery And often glowery He lived, nightly, and drank, daily, And died playing the ukulele | Rabih Alameddine | ||
| c819d64 | The Consul stood up. He gave two short whistles while below him the cat's ears twirled. "She thinks I'm a tree with a bird in it," he added." | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 6c9f4ff | Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the window, my name being continually repeated with scorn by imaginary parties arriving, the dark's spinets. As if there were not enough real noises in these nights the color of grey hair. Not like the rending tumult of American cities, the noise of the unbandaging of great giants in agony. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 3cbcd90 | word | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| b45f884 | McGoff didn't have much use for modern Vancouver. According to him, it has a sort of Pango Pango quality mingled with sausage and mash and generally a rather Puritan atmosphere. Everyone fast asleep and when you prick them a Union Jack flows out of the hole. But no one in a certain sense lives there. They merely as it were pass through. Mine the country and quit. Blast the land to pieces, knock down the trees and send them rolling down Burr.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 2adee80 | With means, if more than a little diminished means, of his own Ethan had done what his father before him, likewise a lawyer, had done, and had once in days past counselled him to do before it was too late, before this might spell an irrevocable retirement. He made a Retreat. (To be sure he had not been bidden so far afield as had his father, who'd spent the last year of peace before the First World War as a legal adviser on international co.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 7efded4 | ronyons | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| d467ceb | The more even sounds of the bus wove into Hugh's brain an idiotic syllogism: I am losing the Battle of the Ebro, I am also losing Yvonne, therefore Yvonne is... | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 5ecaccf | I can see him and I hate the bastard already: short-sighted and promiscuous, six foot three of gristle and bristle and pathos, of deep-voiced charm and casuistry. . . Business-like, inept and unintelligent, strong and infantile, like most American men, quick to wield chairs in a fight, vain, and who, at thirty still ten, turns the act of love into a kind of dysentery... | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 7d4b376 | Le gusta este jardin, que es suyo? !Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan! | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| de2ba48 | The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing 'strength from the depths of the universe'; Malcolm Lowry speaks about the deadness of the stars except when he looked at them with a particular girl; I had neither feeling. The founder of the Jesuits used to spend many hours under the stars; it is hard to be certain whether his.. | jesuits language malcolm-lowry point-of-departure saint-ignatius specificity starlight tehran | Peter Levi | |
| a311d9a | Catharism was the greatest heretical challenge faced by the Catholic Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The attempt by the Cathars to find an answer to the fundamental religious and philosophical problems posed by the existence of evil, combined with their success in persuading large numbers of Christians in the West that they had solved these problems, shook the Catholic hierarchy to its very core, and provoked a series of rea.. | Malcolm Barber | ||
| 6239ac4 | wisely reconsidered and let the hand | Ron Rash |