"We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ."

Source : "God is not the puppet master" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2005.

Karl Barth

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“As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan
“The author enters into his own death, writing begins.”

Source : Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.49, Univ of California Press
“Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.”
“I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different.”
“I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.”
“In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing -- all working together to create the world that we want.”

Source : Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.”
“I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe I can do anything I've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star I've got faith I've got faith Faith of the heart”

Source : Song: Faith of the Heart

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