"The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man."

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Source : Interview with Micky Jones, medium.com.

Walter Brueggemann

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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

Source : Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42
“I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.”
“Planet Earth thought it had Â£10. But it turns out we only had Â£2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth”
“Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.”
“If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.”
“Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.”
“Life begins now -- right now -- not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 20, 2016

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