Emil Brunner Quotes
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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.
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The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
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Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.
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The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.
