Carol P. Christ Quotes
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
Quotes to Explore
-
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
-
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
-
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
-
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
-
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
-
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
-
I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
-
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
-
So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
-
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
-
No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
-
Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
-
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
-
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
-
I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
-
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
-
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
-
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
-
Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.
-
I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures and skating with us.
-
I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.
-
When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?
-
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
