Emergent Church Quotes

#1. When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

Ram Kapoor

#2. And so I struggle against my bonds, not because I want to get free, not even because I want the pain. I want what it represents. That I am Damien's. Bound to him. Marked by him. Claimed by him.

J. Kenner

#3. Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life ... brings with it the possibility of true joy.

Peter Rollins

#4. This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

Peter Rollins

#5. Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

Peter Rollins

#6. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

Eric Ludy

#7. Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

Winston Churchill

#8. I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

Isabel Yosito

#10. When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#11. What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

Peter Rollins

#12. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

#13. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

Daria Snadowsky

#14. You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

Thomas Lennon

#15. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Lady Gaga

#17. There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was.
No idea.
The breed, then ?
Mongrel.
And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.

Ian Rankin

#18. I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Maya Angelou