"What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ..."

-- Ethel M. Dell

#Old Things Quotes #Political Quotes #Needs Quotes

“For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.”

Source : "New year resolutions". www.smh.com.au. January 13, 2003.
“That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.”
“I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.”

Source : "Jay Bakker Talks Faith, Doubt and Where the Church Has Gone Wrong". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. February 14, 2013.
“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?”
“It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.”
“I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.”
“How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?”

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