"Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape."

-- Michael Tanner

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Church Quotes

“It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”
“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.”
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
“Responsibility is good for your soul”
“For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.”
“My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.”
“To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.”
“A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.”

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