Katharine Jefferts Schori quotes

“But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.”
-- Katharine Jefferts Schori

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“I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.”
-- Katharine Jefferts Schori

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“Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.”
-- Katharine Jefferts Schori

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“See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.”
-- Katharine Jefferts Schori

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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”

“Every text assumes a reader.”

“When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.”

“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt ***** shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.”

“If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.”