"The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature."

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Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”

Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez

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“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
“It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.92, University of Chicago Press
“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”
“When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.”
“When I took drum lessons as a kid the teacher would always ask me if I practiced, and I'd be like 'nope' and he'd be like: "Well you're not going to be able to play the beat." So I would ask him to show me, and he'd show me and I'd be able to hear it and play it, so I've always not really been good at reading things.”
“I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.”

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“Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.55
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”

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