"Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol."

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Stanley Hauerwas

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“Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.”
“As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.”
“There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.”
“I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.”
“Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.”
“Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.”
“I saw a lot of that. It made me uncomfortable. He's been studying me. We don't just sit down and talk, he's actually studying me. It makes me a little uncomfortable being under that microscope. But I think Eric [Bana] immured himself wight he script and is doing what he needed to do”
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.”

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