Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

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God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

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The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. . . . . We must not. . . . . assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

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It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

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Billy Sunday

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

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William H. Macy

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

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