Allan Boesak Quotes

#1. THE ULTIMATE TFSA GUIDE.

Gordon Pape

#2. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.

Coco J. Ginger

#3. One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Nicola Cornick

#4. People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

George Burns

#5. And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

Allan Boesak

#6. There was a time in our very recent history when it was "interesting" to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized

Chuck Klosterman

#7. I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

Allan Boesak

#8. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Allan Boesak

#9. Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

Allan Boesak

#10. The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.

Allan Boesak

#11. I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dave Eggers

#12. Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

Allan Boesak

#13. Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.

Pixie Lynn Whitfield

#14. What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

Allan Boesak

#15. I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

Allan Boesak