"The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Christian Quotes #Character Quotes #Past Quotes

“Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.”
“You canâ€™t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you â€”- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because theyâ€™re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I donâ€™t believe in God. Because he doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. Even if itâ€™s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a personâ€™s past canâ€™t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If thatâ€™s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isnâ€™t that like being god?”
“A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.”
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...”
“Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.”
“I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.”
“All things are delicately interconnected.”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons! "Let it be counted folly," says Hooker, "or fury, or frenzy, or whatever else; it is our wisdom and our comfort. We care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned, and that God hath suffered; that God has made Himself the Son of Man, and that men are made the righteousness of God."”

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