Crossan Quotes

#1. That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

Stewart Copeland

#2. The maximum weekly rate paid for women in domestic service in New England around the time of the Revolution was the same as the maximum daily rate for male farm laborers.

Gail Collins

#3. Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

Kristin Gore

#4. When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Alan Cohen

#5. To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.

John Dominic Crossan

#6. You don't love anyone either. An argument could be made that you only ever do one of three things to the people closest to you: make enemies of them, kill the people they love, or get them killed. Careful. You're on thinner ice than you've ever been with me.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. The Greek is importantly different: "Jesus said to her, 'Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God

John Dominic Crossan

#9. I am alive and I am alone in a land of so much space.

Sarah Crossan

#10. So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never been before at 4.30 in the morning. And you know the weirdest thing of all? It all seemed so perfectly natural.

Colin Irwin

#11. The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

John Dominic Crossan

#12. There were always historians who said [historical Jesus research] can not be done because of historical problems. There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.

John Dominic Crossan

#13. Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

Ernest Hello

#14. If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.

John Dominic Crossan

#15. Just because no one's managed something in the past, doesn't mean the future's lost.

Sarah Crossan

#16. You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world," she continues, her expression turning earnest. "Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to become a family because you choose to! Maybe that's the best way to make a family, don't you think?

Kristin Harmel

#17. The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.

John Dominic Crossan

#18. For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'

Susanne Bier

#19. But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.

Sarah Crossan

#20. There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.

Ryu Murakami

#21. Breathing is a right, not a privilege, so I'm stealing it back. I'm nervous, but I'm not scared.

Sarah Crossan

#22. The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

John Dominic Crossan

#23. As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

Mike Colter

#24. My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.

Kelli O'Hara

#25. Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability - not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins

John Dominic Crossan

#26. Still, as one ponders that progress from open commensality with Jesus to episcopal banquet with Constantine, is it unfair to regret a progress that happened so fast and moved so swiftly, that was accepted so readily and criticized so lightly? Is

John Dominic Crossan

#27. Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

John Dominic Crossan

#28. It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

John Dominic Crossan

#29. Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all.

Sarah Crossan

#30. -Everything will turn out all right. You'll see.
-I can't imagine how, said Atreyu.
-Neither can I, said the luckdragon. But that's the best part of it.

Michael Ende

#31. Normal is the Holy Grail
and only those without it
know its value.

Sarah Crossan

#32. I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

John Dominic Crossan

#33. Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Edwin Louis Cole

#34. My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

John Dominic Crossan

#35. Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts

Sarah Crossan