"Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question."

-- Harold S. Kushner

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“Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.”
“If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere.”
“God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?”
“I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities,”
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
“The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and weâ€™ll all die.”
“a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.”
“Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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