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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
    tags: belief, forgiveness, god, religion
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    Muriel Barbery
    “We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.”
    ― Muriel Barbery
    tags: assumptions, seeing
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    Joan Didion
    “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
    ― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
    tags: grammar
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    Jacqueline A. Bussie
    “A genuine apology is like an eleventh-hour rain on a dusty crop. Grossly overdue, but miraculously just in time.”
    ― Jacqueline A Bussie
    tags: apology, forgiveness
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    “... the knowledge traditionally associated with the center is deeply compromised by its sheer lack of knowledge ... with regards to the margins ... [on the margins one] knows (and has been required to know) far more about the center than the center ever knows ... about the margins.”
    ― Fernando Segovia
    tags: center, epistemology, margins
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    Kwame Alexander
    “The mind of an adult begins in the imagination of a child.”
    ― Kwame Alexander
    tags: children, development, education, imagination
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    Louise Penny
    “We don't just sing; we are the song.”
    ― Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery
    tags: devotion, praise, singing
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  • #10
    “We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no even by our inactivity.”
    ― Jacquelyn Grant
    tags: daily-life, discipleship, gospel
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  • #11
    “The history of Christianity shows that orthodox objections to syncretism have less to do with the purity of faith, and more with who has the right to determine what is to be considered normative and official.”
    ― Ada María Isasi-Díaz, En la Lucha / In the Struggle: A Hispanic Women's Liberation Theology
    tags: orthodoxy, syncretism
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  • #12
    “God values the mother tongue, even for people who may know other languages.”
    ― Harriet Hill
    tags: contextualization, translation
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  • #13
    Bryan Stevenson
    “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
    ― Bryan Stevenson
    tags: social-justice
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly, is that they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: avoidance, hate, pain
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  • #15
    “Faith has taught me to see the miraculous in everyday life: the miracle of ordinary black women resisting and rising about evil forces in society, where forces work to destroy and subvert the creative power and energy my mother and grandmother taught me God gave black women.”
    ― Delores Williams
    tags: black-women, daily-life, resistance, womanist
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  • #16
    “... black people used the Bible to put primary emphasis upon God's response to the community's situation of pain and bondage.”
    ― Delores Williams
    tags: bible, divine-love
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  • #17
    “Was Hagar's naming of God an act of defiance and resistance as well as an expression of awe?”
    ― Delores Williams
    tags: god, hagar, resistance
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  • #18
    “[The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: hope, solidarity, the-cross
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  • #19
    “The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle
    tags: atonement, cross, scandal
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  • #20
    “Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use And Abuse Of The Cross
    tags: christianity, the-cross
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  • #21
    “The Lord was exposed with naked body: He was not deemed worthy even of covering; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened, because they slew God, who hung naked on a tree.”
    ― Melitos of Sardis
    tags: god, the-cross
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  • #22
    “[The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: epistemology, scandal, the-cross
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  • #23
    “... the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: golgotha, revelation-of-god, the-cross
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  • #24
    “Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: embodiment-of-god, incarnation
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  • #25
    “Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!”
    ― Vitor Westhelle
    tags: god, omnipotence
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  • #26
    “... a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: scandal, the-cross
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  • #27
    “... the justice of Christ breaks in and fragments the systems of the world, its philosophy, ecclesial structures legal rules–in short, the earthly economies and regimes.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: gospel, justification, prophetic-pragmatism
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  • #28
    “Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: cross, law, prophetic
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  • #29
    “... in the Greek wording of the Nicene Creed ... we confess God to be literally the "poet of heaven and earth" (poieten ouranou kai ges).”
    ― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
    tags: creator, creed, genesis-1, god
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  • #30
    “The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.”
    ― Vitor Westhelle
    tags: hidden, kingdom-of-god, margins
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