"I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church."

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Source : Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

Kevin Vanhoozer

#Ideas Quotes #Church Quotes #Culture Quotes

“There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself, to seek out his weaknesses and your own strengths, and act accordingly, b) to make ample use of subterfuge and stratagem in order to defeat or disarm your adversary, and c) to use outright violence only when absolutely necessary in the belief that political struggle was more effective than military struggle.”
“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”

Source : Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.”
“All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.”

Source : Tea and Sympathy, act 1 (1953)
“Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.”
“I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.”
“Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.”
“All things are photographable.”

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