Kit Sune > Kit's Quotes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”
― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

“Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.”
― Stanley M. Hauerwas

“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.”
― Stanley Hauerwas

“The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.”
― Stanley Hauerwas

“The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

“We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, God, Medicine, and Suffering

“Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.”
― Daniel Pennac, The Rights of the Reader

“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime. ”
― Daniel Pennac, Better than Life