"The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile."

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Source : Source: sojo.net

Russell D. Moore

#Christian Quotes #Issues Quotes #Way Quotes

“I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.”
“I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.”
“Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away”

Source : Farley Mowat (1990). “The New Founde Land”, Seal Books
“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.”

Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
“I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.”
“I play in a position that demands hard work and generosity and little glamour, but I like it.Â Itâ€™s my job and I like it.Â I would rather intercept and steal 10 balls than shoot.Â Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m here for, to make everyone elseâ€™s jobs easier.”
“The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.”

Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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