Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.


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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
EUGENE IONESCO
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the ...
EUGENE KENNEDY
If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect f...
EUGENE KENNEDY
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a sp...
EUGENE CERNAN
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
EUGENE JARVIS
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. ...
EUGENE KENNEDY
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ac...
EUGENE FIELD
I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I ...
EUGENE CERNAN
State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pen...
EUGENE FAMA
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life...
EUGENE KENNEDY
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from...
EUGENE KENNEDY
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others...
EUGENE DELACROIX
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are abl...
EUGENE O'NEILL
I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not...
EUGENE LEVY
Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not r...
EUGENE KENNEDY
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring backgro...
EUGENE CERNAN
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d...
EUGENE CERNAN
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at expl...
EUGENE FAMA
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as ...
EUGENE CERNAN
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen...
EUGENE CERNAN
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
EUGENE JARECKI
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
EUGENE CERNAN
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
EUGENE IONESCO
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, s...
EUGENE CERNAN
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist...
EUGENE WIGNER
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.
EUGENE DELACROIX
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see,...
EUGENE CERNAN
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...
EUGENE DELACROIX
To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe...
EUGENE CLOUTIER
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing ...
EUGENE DELACROIX
You can only predict things after they've happened.
EUGENE IONESCO
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all...
EUGENE DEBS
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
EUGENE DELACROIX
Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kin...
EUGENE MIRMAN
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
EUGENE KENNEDY
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually not...
EUGENE DELACROIX
I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a...
EUGENE LEVY
is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.
EUGENE LEVY
'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s...
EUGENE LEVY
I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p...
EUGENE LEVY
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ...
EUGENE LEVY
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
EUGENE IONESCO
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ...
EUGENE JARECKI
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u...
EUGENE KENNEDY
I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose...
EUGENE DEBS
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ...
EUGENE DEBS