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“Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture. But they both...”
“The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would have trivialized his sacrifice by living as though they w...”
“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made the Lord's Supper too much a place WHERE BELIEVERS DID THINGS FOR GOD -...”
“exaggeration is the octopus of the English language”
“Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.”
“I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.”
“The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan”
“Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.”
“Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.”
“...Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom... you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, bec...”
“I am not weak and can control my mind really well".”
“Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.”
“Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.”
“We become the books we read.”
“Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.”
“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books ...”
“All the dreams I'd allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind.”
“Shared history was the coin of the realm.”
“Anecdotes came with his DNA.”
“Finding the stewardess, Bly asked her about the monkey. The stewardess replied drily, "We have met." Bly was now alarmed to see that the stewardess's arm was bandaged from wrist to shoulder."What d...”
