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Michael Williams
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one farmer turned down an offer of a one-quarter royalty and stubbornly held out for a one-eighth share.
“For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.” “Well spoken, Gobryas!” exclaimed”
― Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
― Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
“Because if something is wrong with your God, if your God is loving one second and cruel the next, if your God will punish people for all of eternity for sins committed in a few short years, no amount of clever marketing or compelling language or good music or great coffee will be able to disguise that one, true, glaring, untenable, unacceptable, awful reality.”
― Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
― Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
“Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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“We saw how Christian Zionism perpetuates a simple but terribly dangerous theological idea, an idea that Christian missiologist Lesslie Newbigin called “the greatest heresy in the history of monotheism,” the idea that God chooses some people for exclusive privilege, leaving everyone else in a disfavored (or we might say “dis-graced”) status.14 They are the other. They don’t belong here. They are in the way. Their rights don’t count.”
― Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
― Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
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