Walter Brueggemann Quotes
If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
