"It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out oneâ€™s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up Godâ€™s church."

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Source : Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

Gordon Fee

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“Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.”

Source : Evening Standard, May 9, 1989.
“I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.”
“Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.”
“I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it.”
“On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.”
“I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.”
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”

Source : "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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