"We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp."

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Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

Brian D. McLaren

#Christian Quotes #Humble Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand
“Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!”
“I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.”
“We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.”
“If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

Source : Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.

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