"There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true."

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Source : Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.42, Hachette UK

Kevin Powers

#Distinction Quotes #Remembered Quotes

“Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.”
“The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”
“Thatâ€™s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) â€“ youâ€™re only half of the equation. Itâ€™s an interaction between you and the person whoâ€™s going to experience the work. The person whoâ€™s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.”
“God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."”
“Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.”
“Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.”
“Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.”
“Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.”

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