August 2011
17 posts
It seems to me that it is a minority that gets the true and full gospel. We just...
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from CAC Foundation Set: Gospel Call to Compassionate Action (Bias from the Bottom) and Contemplative Prayer
We see in the Gospels that it’s the lame, the poor, the blind, the prostitutes,...
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from CAC Foundation Set: Gospel Call to Compassionate Action (Bias from the Bottom) and Contemplative Prayer
For instance, on Wall Street right now, you have people who are literally...
– Van Jones (via azspot)
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent...
– Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish lawyer and writer, 1770
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Poverty belongs in museums so future generations can wonder how a few people...
– Muhammad Yunus (via neverdancewiththedevil)
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to...
– E. E. Cummings, quoted by Emergent Village
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Once we are liberated from ego, false religion, mind games, and conventional...
– Richard Rohr, Jesus as Liberator / Paul as Liberator
The great irony is that the almost pathological fervency with which the...
– Stanley Hauerwas, The Death of America’s God
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in...
– Stanley Hauerwas, The Death of America’s God
Saying a person is a heretic because they don’t believe this, or that they’re...
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Jesus as Liberator/Paul as Liberator
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
– Soren Kierkegaard (via robot-heart)