Craig Detweiler Quotes
While we like to think that our theology shapes our understanding of the world, our understanding of the world often shapes our theology. The central metaphors of an era will often shift our notions of God.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
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As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.
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I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy-which of course includes human economy-is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant...
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While we like to think that our theology shapes our understanding of the world, our understanding of the world often shapes our theology. The central metaphors of an era will often shift our notions of God.
