Pure Christianity

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When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.

White Elk

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“Here is the decisive difference between Christianity and all other religions. Man’s religiosity makes him look in his distress for the power of God in the world: God is the deus ex machina.
The Bible directs man to God’s powerlessness and suffering; only the suffering of God can help... Christians stand by God in his hour of grieving; that is what distinguishes Christians from pagans. Jesus asked in Gethsemane, ‘Could you not watch with me one hour?’ That is a reversal of what religious man expects from God. Man is summoned to share in God’s sufferings at the hands of a godless world.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“We need the courage to differ.”

M. Tenzo

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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

Mohandas Gandhi

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"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

Muhammad Ali

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"Love your neighbor as yourself" and that means, in the global village, we're gonna have to start loving a whole lot more people. That's what that means.

~Bono

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"He must increase, but I must decrease."
John the Baptist

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"The Bible is a collection of stories that teach us about what it looks like when God is at work through actual people. The Bible has the authority it does only because it contains stories about people interacting with the God who has all authority"

Rob Bell
-Velvet Elvis, p.65

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“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

Rodney Dangerfield

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7. Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium.

from 10 Best Things We Will Say to our Grandchildren