"Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together."

-- Pope Francis

#Jesus Quotes #Together Quotes

“The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins
“Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.”
“Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.
“All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.”
“I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.”
“When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.”
“The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2011). “Christianizing the Social Order”, p.248, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“When I interviewed the evangelical Christian youth group who were protesting the Village Voice, I wanted them to feel they could freely tell me things like, "Did you know that 90 percent of prostitutes don't want to be doing it?" Is that unfair? That's sort of an invisible privilege for me.”

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