"Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation."

-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Blow Quotes #Israel Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.”
“Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun....”
“A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.”
“Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.”
“Empire breeds terrorism.”
“Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
“Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.”

Source : Bede Jarrett (1945). “The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons”
“You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.125, A&C Black

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