"Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness."

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Source : Robert Farrar Capon (2000). “The Fingerprints of God: Tracking the Divine Suspect Through a History of Images”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Robert Farrar Capon

#Grace Quotes #Easier Quotes #Remains Quotes

“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”
“A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.”
“We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.”
“But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution”, p.378, Broadway Books
“Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.”
“It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.”
“Home advantage gives you an advantage”
“The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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