"Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf."

-- Karl Barth

#Behalf Quotes #Position Quotes

“The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?”

Source : Warren St. John (2009). “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference”, p.223, Spiegel & Grau
“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”
“Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.”

Source : "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.
“As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.”
“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.”
“What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.”
“Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.”
“The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.”

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