"So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world."

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Source : Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

Walter Wangerin

#Healing Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Source : 1915 Manifesto, quoted in C Gray The Russian Experiment in Art (rev edn1986).
“Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”
“my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.”
“My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.”
“Death is too much to ask of the living.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.199, Hachette UK
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
“The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.”

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