"Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going."

-- N. T. Wright

#Scripture Quotes #Tradition Quotes #Guides Quotes

“As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.”

Source : "Catching up with {hellip} Matt Gonzalez". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2009.
“People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.”
“I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.”
“The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.”

Source : Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.216, Serpent's Tail
“We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.”

Source : 1543 Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.
“Whatever you say, say nothing.”
“Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)”
“What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?”

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