David Dark quotes

“Religion is born out of questions, not answers.”
-- David Dark

Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.17, Zondervan

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“Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.”
-- David Dark

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Asking Quotes

“And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.”
-- David Dark

#Humility Quotes #Might Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.”
-- David Dark

#People Quotes #Inheritance Quotes #Records Quotes

“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”
-- David Dark

Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan

#Repentance Quotes #Pundits Quotes

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.”

“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”

“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr

“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”

Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.

“In pain is a new time born.”

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”

“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”

“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”

Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.

“With rebellion, awareness is born”