John Howard Yoder Quotes

#1. The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

John Howard Yoder

#2. As they were walked closer, Kip saw that his inference was correct: every single person here was a drafter. There had to be eight hundred or a thousand drafters here! "Orholam," Karris breathed. "There must be five hundred drafters here." So I can't count, so what?

Brent Weeks

#3. He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: only one who practices grace can receive grace.

John Howard Yoder

#4. The king loved his wife, the queen, without limit, and she loved him with all her heart. Something like that could only end in disaster.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#5. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

John Howard Yoder

#6. Traditionally, common social location meant that the two partners used the same family name. In recent years alternative patterns of naming have been developed, for reasons which are more convincing to feminists than they are to genealogists or to mail carriers.

John Howard Yoder

#7. Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Rajneesh

#8. Lost ages are neither more nor less profound than the one we live in right now.

Steven Erikson

#9. The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection.

John Howard Yoder

#10. A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

Erich Fromm

#11. The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

John Howard Yoder

#12. She [Susan McDougal] thinks that it's very similar to what they did with her. Rememberwhen she wouldn't cooperate and they got Jim McDougal to cooperate? JimMcDougal went from saying at his trial that she had the highest moralintegrity,

Mark Geragos

#13. Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Max Beerbohm

#14. The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Al Sharpton

#15. This was fuck-you-and-your-mother-and-everyone-else money

Chris Cole

#16. It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#17. Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Martin McGuinness