Robin Meyers famous quotes

Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!
-- Robin Meyers

#Believe #Three #Creeds

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.
-- Robin Meyers

#Sacred #Waking #Blind

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)
-- Robin Meyers

#Compassion #Hands #Media

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.
-- Robin Meyers

#Together #Study #Moments

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.