Justo L. Gonzalez quotes

“The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.”
-- Justo L. Gonzalez

Source : Justo L. González (1999). “For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict”

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“A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves.”
-- Justo L. Gonzalez

Source : Justo L. Gonzalez (2014). “The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation”, p.3, Harper Collins

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“The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.”
-- Justo L. Gonzalez

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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“It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.”
-- Justo L. Gonzalez

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.”

“You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.”