"Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray."

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Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”

Jaroslav Pelikan

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“Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.”
“If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.”
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of excellence. That is the morality of writing, that you try and write as excellently as you possibly can. Or of teaching, or of childrearing, or of friendship. Of anything you do. And, I do try and live, as best I can, with all of the errors that I make, y'know, a value-driven life. And that is defining values as trying to give everything you do, everything you've got.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”
“There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.”
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
“A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.”

Source : Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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