Robin Meyers Quotes

#1. No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.

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#2. they are ambassadors for this program and for their country.

Eileen Cook

#3. They matched. God made them this way so they would recognize themselves as meant for one another when they were born, so they would always find each other no matter where they were on Earth.

Anonymous

#4. Books
they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.

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#5. In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

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#6. It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John McClenahan

#7. And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#8. Most people believe they know what it is that would make them happy, and what it is that they should get rid of in order to be happy. Unfortunately, few actually do.

Lee L Jampolsky

#9. All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Rachel Bilson

#10. In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

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#11. We know that those who challenge the status quo and do so with both conviction and charisma are at risk of being killed.

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#12. When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Daniel Rodriguez

#13. Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

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#14. Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

John Locke

#15. It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)

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#16. A deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

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#17. Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

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#18. The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

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#19. Can I get to the bottle of Old Crow and mix it up with the remains of these ice fragments ... a cool drink for the freak? Give the gentleman something cool, dear, can't you see he's wired his brain to the water pump and his ears to the generator ...

Hunter S. Thompson

#20. Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

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#21. If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)

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#22. Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?

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#23. Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

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#24. Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

Roy Blount Jr.

#25. Let your children see you kiss. Let them see you embrace. Let them overhear your teasing, your gentle rebukes, even your well-intentioned jealousy. Domestic courtship reinforces the notion that people are together because they want to be together, not because it is the decent, practical thing to do.

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#26. Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

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#27. As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

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