"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."

-- John Polkinghorne

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.”
“... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin
“It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself”
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
“People always give me styling products and stuff”
“If you donâ€™t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, youâ€™re not going to resonate very much.”
“A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.”
“I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.”

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