"When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God."

-- Shane Claiborne

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“One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.”
“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”
“My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.”
“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”
“That boy Mantle is a good one.”
“The noble man is only God's image.”

Source : "Genoveva" by Johann Ludwig Tieck,
“Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.”
“After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.”

Source : "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom". Book by Andrew Dickson White, Vol.1, Ch.1: The Visible Universe, p. 57, 1896.

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