"Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology."

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Source : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books

James H. Cone

#Christian Quotes #Theme Quotes #Liberation Quotes

“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
“Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer”
“There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.”
“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness:”

Source : "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.
“My behavior is humiliating.”
“Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone.”
“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.”
“For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.”

Source : Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”

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