"Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated."

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Source : Matt Rees (2013). “The Award-winning Omar Yussef Mysteries: The Bethlehem Murders, The Saladin Murders and The Samaritan's Secret”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

Matt Rees

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“To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).”
“Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÃ‡ateur is identical with the Principe GÃ‡nÃ‡rateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.”
“When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.”
“You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.”
“The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.”
“During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.”
“Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.”
“I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.”

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