"Your God is too Small"

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Source : John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co

John Bertram Phillips

“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.”
“For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.”

Source : Robert Sommer (1978). “The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life”
“What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.”

Source : "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“Letâ€™s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Letâ€™s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Letâ€™s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Letâ€™s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.”
“I belong to no religion.Â My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
“[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.”
“Weâ€™re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.”
“I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.”

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