"The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality."

-- John Howard Yoder

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.”
“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”
“Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.”
“A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.”
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
“Thou shalt not take anything on faith”
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”
“Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.”

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