Quote of the Day #14

If communities mediate revelation from God, surely different communities in different circumstances will mediate different disclosures.
If revelation is mediated through community, revelation will reflect the truth available to that community in its life, memory, and experience, and will tend therefore to be partisan disclosure.
-Walter Brueggemann

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Quote of the Day #13

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

-Agatha Christie (1891-1975)

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Quote of the Day #12

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
-1 John 3:17-18

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Quote of the Day #11

From the greatness and beauty of created things the Creator of them is by analogy perceived.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:5

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Quote of the Day #10

Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

-Karl Marx (1818-1883)

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Quote of the Day #9

The wisdom of a learned man depends on the opportunity of leisure; and he who has little business may become wise.
Jesus (Joshua) ben Sira ca. 180 BCE

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Quote of the Day #8

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
-Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

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Quote of the Day #7

Pure and authentic religion is to be found only where tremendous struggles have been experienced.  The man whose ways are prospering can perhaps do without the divine helper; but the sufferer, who despairs of humanity and of the world, will lift up his hands, out of the depths of his distress, to the God who [...]

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Quote of the Day#6

Where suffering and hope are denied, exiles abound.

-Walter Brueggemann

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Quote of the Day #5

Everything depends on the poem and the poet, for our worlds come from our words.
-Walter Brueggemann

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