"I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse."

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Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu

Allan Boesak

#Christian Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do,”
“Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesnâ€™t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)”
“I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.”
“Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.”

Source : "You’re not in sovereign freedom any more. Get the picture?". canadafreepress.com. November 13, 2014.
“Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.”

Source : Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.77, A&C Black
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340
“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”
“The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.”

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