January 2012
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November 2011
5 posts
September 2011
2 posts
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding...”
– Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk (via lordgarrett)
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
– Charles Baudelaire (via acoustic-funeral)
August 2011
4 posts
“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and...”
– GK Chesterton (via azspot)
“Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love...”
– Blaise Pascal (via azspot)
“What the National Marriage Project indicates, however, is that those who show up...”
– Family Values? Conservative Economics Have Shredded Marriage Rates (via azspot)
July 2011
2 posts
“”For to be free is not to merely cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way...”
– Nelson Mandella (via tifyane)
“When we were fighting AIDS, hunger, water shortages, global warming, and so on,...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via azspot)
June 2011
2 posts
“The work of God is the calling of a people, whether in the Old Covenant or the...”
– John Howard Yoder (via azspot)
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
“Christian ethics are not asked merely for good or better solutions to general...”
– Jürgen Moltmann (via azelie)
“Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a...”
– N.T. Wright (via azspot)
March 2011
10 posts
“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via emilyposts)
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...”
– Alan Watts (via zenjournal)
“One way to approach your work: “I come in on time, even a little early. I do...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
“For us the world has ended. We may have thought that Jesus came to make nice...”
– Stanley Hauerwas (via azspot)
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via miketodd07, thirdworldgirl- )
“The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer...”
– Umberto Eco (via azspot)
February 2011
6 posts
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not...”
– Joshua 1:9 (via camillegeri)
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– Kung Fu Monkey (via azspot)
“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via abideinhislove)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via azspot)
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
– Samuel Becket, Murphy (1938) The 100 best first lines from novels (via quotesforintellectuals)
January 2011
17 posts
“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.”
– CS Lewis
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via smallwhiteashes)
Revolt of the Elites →
The struggle for equality isn’t over, we still have a cultural elite. This could mean either that the lingering existence of a cultural elite testifies to the persistence of class privilege — or else that today the cultural elite is the only thing standing between us and the full spectrum dominance of the power elite. Both notions are true, but the latter truth has gone unadvertised.
“A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root...”
– GK Chesterton
The Christian Faith of Martin Luther King, Jr. →
This morning I would like to submit to you that we who are followers of Jesus Christ, and we who must keep his church going and keep it alive, also have certain basic guidelines to follow. Somewhere behind the dim mist of eternity, God set forth his guidelines. And through his prophets, and above all through his son Jesus Christ, he said that, “There are some things that my church must do. There...
“In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel (via drwh0)
“Now, though, I see things differently. I believe we inherit a great river of...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker (via basileiablog)
“I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in...”
– Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate...”
– Noam Chomsky
“Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers,...”
– Jacques Ellul (via reptiliannatives) (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happer than...”
– Charles de Secondat (via azspot)