William Stringfellow Quotes
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
-
No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
-
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
-
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
-
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
-
Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
-
You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
-
It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
-
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
-
Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
-
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
-
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
-
I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
-
The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.
-
I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.
-
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
-
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
-
The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
-
I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.
-
Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.
-
I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.
-
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.
