"God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with."

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Source : "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

David Plotz

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
“It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.”
“[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.”
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”
“To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.”
“Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.”
“My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!”
“To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”

Source : Philip Massinger (1816). “The Duke of Milan: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.10

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