David Kirk Quotes

#1. You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

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#2. When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

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#3. Do you think this world is perfect, boy?" he said. "Do you think this is the way I would have wanted it? Life is what it is. Surrender your immaculate hopes and bear what you can. That is all we can do".

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#4. But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion.

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#5. Something that cannot stand by itself should not stand.

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#6. The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

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#7. The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

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#8. It was too bleak to be alone, and so they could do nothing but cling to each other as broken beings, as human beings.

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#9. We are samurai, Lord. Death defines us. We must become a master of dealing it to our enemies, yes, but most of all lose all fear of our own.

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#10. Any act would be forgiven him, but the act itself would remain; what he would leave in the world would be the shame and hurt he forced upon others. This could not be.

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#11. Our gifts, they are many:
We hop, fly, and crawl.
But kindness," he said,
Is the finest of all!

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#12. You get what you're good enough to take.

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