"Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story."

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Source : Leonard Shlain (1999). “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image”, p.233, Penguin

Leonard Shlain

#Jesus Quotes #Years Quotes #Greek Quotes

“And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”
“If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.”
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
“The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.”
“Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19
“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what Iâ€™m going to say, or where itâ€™s going. I have some idea of how long itâ€™s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. Thatâ€™s the intrigue of doing it -- itâ€™s a process of discovery. You get to discover what youâ€™re going to say and what itâ€™s going to mean.”
“I can't relate to Mansfield or Monroe. The only one I can relate to is Bardot. First of all, there's a certain physical similarity between us. Second of all, she was very strong--she didn't have that affected sexuality.”
“Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.”

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