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Much of the beauty of light owes its existence to the dark.

more quotes:
-For a Christian, Jesus is the one in whom it has indeed become manifest that revolution and conversion cannot be separated in the human search for experiential transcendence. His appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

Interesting quotes/phrases:
-the revolutionaries believe that the situation is not irreversible and that a total reorientation of humanity is just as possible as is total self-destruction.
-in jesus the mystical and revolutionary ways are not opposites, but two sides of the same human mode of experiential transcendence.
-conversion is the individual equivalent of revolution.

Interesting phrases/quotes:
-Nothing seemed urgent or even important enough to become involved in […]. Peter was not torn apart by conflict, was not depressed, suicidal, or anxiety-ridden. He did not suffer from despair, but neither did he have anything to hope for.
-sense of immortality
-new ways of being immortal
-what is most personal is most universal

Interesting quotes/phrases:
-prisoner of the now
-The future of humanity has now become an option.
-historical dislocation
-most Christian preaching is still based on the presupposition that we see ourselves as meaningfully integrated with a history in which God came to us in the past, is living with us in the present, and will come to liberate us in the future.
-paradoxical human experiences