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My Little Book Of Daily Prayer

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“Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple like, let’s say, crossing the street at one point instead of another.” “Yes, yes, yes, I know,” Stenham said with exaggerated weariness. “As far as I’m concerned that’s just as boring, and a lot more false, by the way. The point I’m trying to make is that he loves his world of Koranic law because it’s his, and at the same time he hates it because his intuition tells him it’s at the end of its rope. He can’t expect anything more from it. And our world, he hates that too, just on general principles, and yet it’s his only hope, the only way out—if there is one for him personally, which I doubt.”

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Book:The Spider's House
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“Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerstone of the Moslem world. It was too deep to be called hypocrisy; it was merely custom. They said one thing and they did something else. They affirmed their adherence to Islam in formulated phrases, but they behaved as though they believed, and actually did believe, something quite different. Still, the unchanging profession of faith was there, and to him it was this eternal contradiction which made them Moslems. But Amar’s relationship to his religion was far more robust: he believed it possible to practice literally what the Koran enjoined him to profess. He kept the precepts constantly in his hand, and applied them on every occasion, at every moment. The fact that such a person as Amar could be produced by this society rather upset Stenham’s calculations. For Stenham, the exception invalidated the rule instead of proving it: if there were one Amar, there could be others. Then the Moroccans were not the known quantity he had thought they were, inexorably conditioned by the pressure of their own rigid society; his entire construction was false in consequence, because it was too simple and did not make allowances for individual variations.”

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Book:The Spider's House
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“I hate you.' I scrambled to fold myself back up into my blanket cocoon. 'See, that's the problem. You don't hate me.' I had no response to that. 'You know what I think?' 'No. And I don't want to know.' He ignored that. 'You like me.' My brows knitted together as I stared out over the small clearing. 'Enough to be wildly inappropriate with me.' A pause. 'On multiple occasions.' 'Good gods, I'd rather freeze to death at this point.' 'Oh, right. We're pretending none of that happened. I keep forgetting.' 'Just because I don't bring it up every five minutes doesn't mean I'm pretending it didn't happen.' 'But bringing it up every five minutes is so much fun.”

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Book:From Blood and Ash
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“As you can see, the way Peter describes Jesus and the salvation he brings corresponds with the views that we found in the Gospel according to Luke. Jesus' death does not bring an atonement (contrast Mark's Gospel). It is a miscarriage of justice. Nor does Jesus' resurrection, in itself, bring salvation. It instead demonstrates Jesus' vindication by God. How then do Jesus' death and resurrection affect a person's standing before God, according to this evangelistic speech in Acts? When people recognize how maliciously Jesus was treated, they realize their own guilt before God—even if they were not present at Jesus' trial. They have committed sins, and the death of Jesus is a symbol of the worst sin imaginable, the execution of the prophet chosen by God. The news of Jesus' death and vindication drives people to their knees in repentance. When they turn from their sins and join the community of Christian believers (through baptism), they are forgiven and granted salvation. Thus salvation for Luke does not come through the death of Jesus per se; it comes through repentance and the forgiveness of sins.”

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Book:The New Testament. A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Second Edition
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“ഏതൊരു തീരുമാനത്തിന് മുന്പും ധ്യാനത്തിന്റെ ഒരിടവേളയും മൌനത്തിന്റെ സാന്ദ്രതയും വേണം. ശന്തമായിരുന്നാൽ തെളിയാത്ത ഒരു പുഴയും ഇല്ല. പലതിലും നാമെടുക്കുന്ന തിടുക്കത്തിലുള്ള തീരുമാനങ്ങൾ അതിസങ്കീർന്നതയിലെക്കുല്ല ഒരിടവഴിയായി മാറുന്നു. തീരുമാനിക്കുന്നവർക്കും അത് സ്വീകരിക്കെണ്ടവർക്കും ഒരു ധ്യാന പശ്ചാത്തലം ആവശ്യമുണ്ട്. അമിത വൈകാരികതയുടെ തീയിൽ പെട്ട ഒരാൾക്കുട്ടത്തിൽ വാക്കിന്റെ പുണ്യതീർത്ഥം പാഴായിപ്പൊവും.”

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Book:Nilathezhuth | നിലത്തെഴുത്ത്
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