"Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross."

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Source : Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Stanley Hauerwas

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“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”
“Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.”
“Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.”
“Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”
“I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.”
“you have to play it out sometimes.”
“If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.”
“Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1859). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy”, p.540

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