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.Carol P. Christ
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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.
Gareth Gates -
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.
G. Gordon Liddy -
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater -
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Abel Korzeniowski -
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
Yuichiro Miura
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
Kangana Ranaut -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Rachel Nichols -
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.
Irvin D. Yalom -
No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
Danica Patrick -
Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
J. K. Simmons
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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.
Dan Flavin -
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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
Sam Altman -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
Natalie Merchant -
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
Ted Nelson
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They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
Donald Byrd -
I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'
Freddie Prinze -
Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
Caroline Myss -
Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.
Narendra Modi -
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Carol P. Christ