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Ron Reagan

"If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger."

Source : "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

Ron Reagan

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“We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.”
“Transformed worship is a life lived in Christ and for Christ...If you are to lead engaging worship, you must first recognize your own need for Christ and His Spirit to live in you.”
“I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.”
“Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But hereâ€™s the thingâ€¦the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.”
“I think the most important thing is how long do we stay in the disappointment. When my mother would see us wallowing in disappointment she would say, "change the channel." So I replace the disappointment with a new direction of where I wanted to go and how I wanted to feel. Also, when something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.”
“When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.”
“The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins
“Jump, then grow wings on the way down.”

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