Top 19 Boff Quotes
#1. The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
Mev Puleo
#2. Boff," Agent Brent said. "I didn't know people used that word anymore." "You young whippersnappers just don't know a good piece of slang when you hear it,
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. People say that God is a masculine adult who thinks. This is a machista view!
A child says, "God plays." God is in the child. (Leonardo Boff, p. 167)
Mev Puleo
#4. The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161)
Mev Puleo
#5. Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.
Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor
this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p. 169)
Mev Puleo
#6. I do not make love, Miss Bennet," he had told her."I bonk. I have it off. I get my end way, I rodger, I boff.
William Codpiece Thwackery
#8. Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.
Leonardo Boff
#9. Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
Lysander Spooner
#10. When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
Leonardo Boff
#11. I used to make love to Green Day's music. But 9 minutes? I'm not Superman.
Doug Benson
#12. To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.
Leonardo Boff
#13. No one is a judge in his own case.
Anonymous
#14. The prices are ridiculous ... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Dorothy Thompson
#15. The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.
Leonardo Boff
#16. The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.
Leonardo Boff
#17. Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
Leonardo Boff
#18. Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.
Mervyn Peake
#19. I sat looking at her, completely lost for words; women say the damnedest things.
E.R. Braithwaite
