James Hal Cone Quotes

The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.

James Hal Cone

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• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  

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• I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.

  

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• My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

  

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• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

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• I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

  

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• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  

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• In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

  

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• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  

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• It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

  

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• If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

  

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• We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

  

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• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

  

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  

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• The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Means
  • Gospel
  • Liberation