"The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross."

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John Stott

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“False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.”

Source : "Front-Runner For U.S. Senate Seat In Alabama Calls Islam A ‘False Religion" by Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2017.
“My style is kneeing people in the face.”
“There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.”

Source : "Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.
“Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.”
“Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.”
“A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who â€˜looks on all things through suffering and the crossâ€™ is constrained to speak the truthâ€¦it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.”
“Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.”

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