"What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere."

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Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

John Dominic Crossan

#Jesus Quotes #Reading Quotes #Healing Quotes

“When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.”
“Extreme complication is contrary to art.”
“If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?”

Source : Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”
“There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom”
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.90, Macmillan

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