“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.”
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.”
Source: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
“Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits.
Corporate folk get distracted by efficiencies and miss effectiveness.
But ballers? Ballers know the difference between a hack and a hoop every time.
Take your shot.”
“I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do it―they simply aren't being allowed that opportunity under the current economic system.”
Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Using others is a sin.
Why should I wish
to use another?”
Source: Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
“Du kannst dir nicht vorstellen, wie sehr ich ringe um ein Quäntchen Schreiben, um einen Hauch Ich, nein, kannst Du nicht, auch wenn Du vieles kannst, das wird Dir nicht gelingen- doch nachts die Nase an mein duftendes, winziges neues Söhnchen zu halten und so einzuschlafen, wer will das ersetzen?”
Source: Schlafen werden wir später