"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."

-- Amos Oz

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“Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.”

Source : Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press
“Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.”
“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?”
“All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.”
“France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.”
“What hapÂpens to me if this slipÂper fits?" "I turn you into a handÂsome frog.”
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.”

Source : Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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