“Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I’ve done a lot of stupid stuff.”
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Category Archives: Quotes
A Few Quotes That Would Prove Useful in Conversation…or a Book.
August 10, 2005 – 7:10 pm
“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.”
- Peter Ustinov
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
- Robert Heinlein”
A Few Quotes from Derek Webb
June 28, 2005 – 3:47 pm
for saying the things he says:
“There is so much pretense in Christian Music, of people trying to convince people that they are Jesus, because of how well that markets. I am not Jesus. I am not my savior. I am not sinless. I am not perfect. If anything, my heart is a mockery of those things. And I would much rather model brokenness. I think that’s more consistent with the Christian worldview, rather than modeling perfection.
The Christian life is about one of two things: it’s either about being perfect and keeping the law, or it’s about realizing your need for one who can keep the law in your place. And a lot of us genuinely believe that Christianity is the first one. We pay lip service to Jesus being sufficient for our sins, and liberating us from the law, when really we still believe that God loves us more when we keep the law. And that’s a lie.”
And this:
“If art is judged on form and content, the cross is the ultimate artistic example. Jesus was the form of humanity and the content of God. We as artists have to learn how to marry human brokenness and divine mercy together in art. That’s our job.”
From The Gospel According to Peanuts
February 16, 2005 – 4:57 pm
From The Gospel According to Peanuts:
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” (Ps. 137:4 RSV) is a question the Church, always finding itself in but not of the world, urgently needs to reconsider today. For it not only needs to reconsider how it can best make meaningful contact with the particular men of our particular time, with all of their own idiosyncrasies; but the Church also needs to re-examine its strategy of communication to men of all times—since the objection all men have to the Church’s message is fundamentally the same: it is that universal hardness of heart lying far more deeply and steadfastly within them than any objection men can usually hold consciously.”
(from the christianitytoday.com article):
Whew. More than one reader, expecting a book about, well, “Peanuts,” surely stopped right there. Even those who waded through the imposing syntax would arrive at the disconcerting substance: for Short, the gospel begins with original sin. Art, including “Peanuts,” is thus an end run around sin—”disguising the truth in order to get it through the enemy’s defenses.” Short proceeded to offer a kind of illustrated neo-orthodoxy, correlating Kirkegaard and Lucy, Barth and Snoopy. If he treated the drawings more as sermon illustrations than as art worth interpreting in its own right, the fact that Schulz was a Sunday school teacher seemed to justify a few critical liberties.
Good Quotes from a Good U2 Article
November 7, 2004 – 10:12 pm
Interview with U2:
“After the initial struggle, they used to worry if they were too biblical to be cool.”
“She thought I’d make a priest one day.”
- Larry Mullen, about his mom
“But the band is all I’ve ever wanted, and I get paid for it.”
- Larry Mullen
“We’ve grown up being a political band. We never saw a need to separate religion and politics from everything we write about and care about.”
- The Edge
“Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.”
- The Edge
“So I just looked at the most powerful man in the free world as he waved at the crowd, and I said, ‘So you are pretty popular round here?’ and he goes, ‘It wasn’t always so. See, when I first came here, people used to wave at me with one finger.’”
- Bono about George Bush
“You can exorcise your demons or you can exercise them. I don’t know what I’ve discovered about myself from analysis. The thing to watch for is navel-gazing — and I do have a very nice one — but most of what I’ve learnt about myself you discover in other people.”
- Bono
“No, you can’t love too much. You can’t out-give God.” He pauses. “But you should try, I think. That’s where I’d like to spend the rest of my life.”
-Bono
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