Robert McAfee Brown quotes
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“How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.”
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“Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.”
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“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.”
-- Robert McAfee BrownSource : Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press
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“The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.”
-- Robert McAfee BrownSource : ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN (1956). “THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH”
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“To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.”
-- Robert McAfee BrownSource : Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”
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“Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.”
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“Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.”
-- Robert McAfee BrownSource : Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers
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“An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.”
Source : "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 147, 1897.
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