"A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality."

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Source : James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

James Luther Adams

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“How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.”
“We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.”

Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep ***** in your liquor cabinet?”
“Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.”
“But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

Source : First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
“Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up on radio. That's where I heard Buddy Holly, that's where I heard Chuck Berry. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I'm involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there's no question about that.”
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe...”

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