"Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“I do loathe explanations.”
“Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.”
“The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.”
“Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.”
“The good is the end toward which all things tend.”
“The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Wolves of God: Blackwood Collections”, p.146, 谷月社
“'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.”

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