Walter Wink Quotes

#1. History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

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#2. Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

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#3. The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

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#4. The failure of churches to continue Jesus' struggle to overcome domination is one of the most damning apostasies in its history. With some thrilling exceptions, the churches of the world have never yet decided that domination is wrong.

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#5. No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

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#6. So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

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#7. Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

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#8. Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

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#9. My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

Steve Ovett

#10. The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

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#11. The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

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#12. I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Carre Otis

#13. He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

Walter Hagen

#14. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

W.B.Yeats

#15. Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

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#16. If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

Holly Cupala

#17. Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

Peter Drucker

#18. Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.

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#19. Never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

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#20. We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

Gillian Flynn

#21. To worship is to remember Who owns the house.

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#22. I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.

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#23. Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.

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#24. How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

Brad Pitt

#25. Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin.

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