"Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)"

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Source : David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

David Bentley Hart

#Epic Quotes #Church Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
“I think the Russians need to think more carefully about the commitment they made under the chemical weapons agreements to be the guarantor that these weapons would be seized, they would be removed, they would be destroyed. And since they are Bashar al-Assad's ally, they would have the closest insight as to the compliance.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.
“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press
“Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.”
“â€ŽIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lotâ€¦reading is the creative center of a writerâ€™s lifeâ€¦you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
“To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.”
“I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.”

Source : "17 Questions With Alexander Ludwig" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2012.

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