jbquotes
"If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are." → http://is.gd/2hde
| "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do." → http://is.gd/2hde |
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| Currently reading: "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie → http://is.gd/2hde |
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| "Strangely, we seem prepared to learn how to live from almost anyone but him [Jesus]." p.55 |
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| "Nothing is more meaningful than beauty." p.10 |
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| Currently reading: "The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God" by Dallas Willard → http://urltea.com/38f5 |
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| "New suburban houses all seem to have been built for entry-level monarchs; you almost expect to see moats." p. 161 |
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| "If we let go of a little bit of our individualism (at the moment, we have plenty to spare), we may recover something we've been missing." |
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| "Since the end of WWII, America has lost a farm about every half hour, mostly because farming has grown more efficient." p. 54 |
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| "Money consistently buys happiness right up to about $10,000 per capita income, and after that point the correlation disappears." p. 41 |
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| Currently reading: "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future" by Bill McKibben → http://urltea.com/34sa |
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| "The epistemology of television has left us ignorant, without the vocabulary to express this awful transformation." p.183 |
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| "The new atheists, like all utopians, ask us to live unexamined lives, to believe we can conquer our humanness." p.162 |
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| finishing up "i don't believe in atheists" by chris hedges → http://urltea.com/32g9 |
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| "No ethical stance, no matter how pure it appears, is moral if it is not based on the reality of human limitations." p.130 |
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| "Faith does not conflict with scientific truth, unless faith claims to EXPRESS a scientific truth." p.89 |
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| "Any form of knowledge that claims to be absolute ceases to be knowledge. It become a form of faith." p.20 |
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| "Religion is our finite, flawed, and imperfect expression of the infinite." p.15 |
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| currently reading: "i don't believe in atheists" by chris hedges → http://urltea.com/32g9 |
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| "It is not the case that theology and science are chalk and cheese, a matter of airy opinion compared with solid fact." p.x |
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