"The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit."

-- Brennan Manning

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“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
“Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.”

Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.43, Paulist Press
“To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.180, Hachette UK
“My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.”

Source : "Cantor Vs. Manzullo Cont'd, Warren Hauls in $7m, Congress to Hold 4 days of Gsa Hearings, Rubio Embraces Embattled Rivera, Pryor Won't Campaign for Obama, Sir Lugar The Mild, Trivia". Preview of the day's congressional news by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. April 10, 2012.
“The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.”
“We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”
“Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.”
“I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.”

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