"True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice."

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Source : Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

Robert McAfee Brown

#Light Quotes #Justice Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.”
“I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”
“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.”
“Independence didn't have to be exile.”
“Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory ...”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.”
“The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble...”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”
“It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.”

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