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“Mr. Chairman” said Assemblywoman Ware, “sorry to interrupt. But how did it happen that everyone on the committee except me is a lawyer?” “I think the leadership in the General Assembly wanted people on this Committee who don’t know
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“In the worship discussions it will therefore be important for us to convince the leadership that they are seeking unity when they are really seeking uniformity. Some of our most significant victories in the last few centuries have been when churches abandon the search for unity (a difficult and elusive search) in favor of a policy of uniformity. Unity can only emerge from the Enemy working in the hearts of individuals. A leadership can impose uniformity. Unity has, at its core, a common conviction and celebrates differences in expression. Uniformity emphasizes appearance—as long as we all meet together and sing the same songs, we must be unified. Uniformity says that our various beliefs about the Enemy can differ or even be nonexistent as long as we do not question the decisions”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“As you know, real musicians (and the performers must keep reminding themselves that they are indeed real musicians) don’t like to play familiar songs repeatedly. They intensely dislike overused arrangements for hymns and praise songs; they need a challenge, and this means new songs added each week, songs that have ever more sophisticated arrangement and accompaniment. Over time fewer and fewer audience members are able to give voice to the songs.”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“And this is one of the most interesting things about pharmakeia. People claim to be enlightened by the experiences, but when you ask them what they learned, you get saccharine clichés about the oneness of everything and how we just need to love everyone. Not exactly enlightening.”
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
“When I was single I learned over dinner, careful not to drip tomato sauce upon discussions about the sprinkling of blood on the Temple altar.”
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
“Rav Yehuda did not like to pray He preferred to learn Torah and say: “You may call my soul dirty But one day in thirty Is better than three times a day.”
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
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