"We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It wonï¿½t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus."

-- Thomas Gumbleton

#Peace Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.”
“The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.”
“I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.”
“I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.”
“It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.”
“Boys are the cash of war.”
“Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.”
“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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