"The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out."

-- John Shelby Spong

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“...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2006). “Against the Grain: Easyread Large Edition”, p.361, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.”
“Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.”
“We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.”
“The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.”

Source : John Verdon (2010). “Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)”, p.102, Broadway Books
“Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.”

Source : "On The Road Eve" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. August 15, 2001.
“And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?”
“It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.”

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