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"I liked the "What is a Human" chapter until the very last line by George Bernard Shaw "Life is not about finding ourselves, its about creating ourselves." Sure there is some aspect of this, life would be tragic without the aspect of self creation. But for the books purposes I think it would have been better to highlight the static and permanent aspects in a human (which I staunchly insist is deep and abiding surely)" — Apr 14, 2026 10:25AM
"I liked the "What is a Human" chapter until the very last line by George Bernard Shaw "Life is not about finding ourselves, its about creating ourselves." Sure there is some aspect of this, life would be tragic without the aspect of self creation. But for the books purposes I think it would have been better to highlight the static and permanent aspects in a human (which I staunchly insist is deep and abiding surely)" — Apr 14, 2026 10:25AM
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"Three things:
1.) fitting I buy this book at the Harvard Square bookstore.
2.) It’s useful to originate the MAGA phenomenon in the 1960, but it’s far from accurate. And, relatedly
3.) Through the introduction there is much of the usual talk: centering female/bipoc experience, problematizing the family, framing native climate experiences but not a damn word given to deindustrialization. Typical" — Jun 11, 2025 09:35AM
"Three things:
1.) fitting I buy this book at the Harvard Square bookstore.
2.) It’s useful to originate the MAGA phenomenon in the 1960, but it’s far from accurate. And, relatedly
3.) Through the introduction there is much of the usual talk: centering female/bipoc experience, problematizing the family, framing native climate experiences but not a damn word given to deindustrialization. Typical" — Jun 11, 2025 09:35AM
“Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.”
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“Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”
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“Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.”
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.”
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The ultimate expression of this Christian attitude toward the power of money is what we will call profanation. To profane money, like all other powers, is to take away its sacred character.... Giving to God is the act of profanation par excellence.... We need to regain an appreciation of gifts that are not utilitarian. We should meditate on the story in the Gospel of John where Mary wastes precious ointment on Jesus. The one who protests against this free gift is Judas. He would have preferred it to be used for good works, for the poor. He wanted such an enormous sum of money to be spent usefully. Giving to God introduces the useless into the world of efficiency, and this is an essential witness to faith in today's world.”
― Money & Power
― Money & Power
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