Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... easy task. At first sight, it may seem that they have only to proclaim and declare; but in fact, if their words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words, shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. This means, in practice, turning a face of flint toward the easy cliche, the well-worn religious cant and phraseology -- dear, no doubt, to the faithful, but utterly meaningless to those outside the fold. It means learning how people are thinking and how they are feeling; it means learning with patience, imagination and ingenuity the way to pierce apathy or blank lack of understanding. I sometimes wonder what hours of prayer and thought lie behind the apparently simple and spontaneous parables of the Gospel.
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HALDANE Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex... J. B. S. HALDANE If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t... J. B. S. HALDANE It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i... J. B. S. HALDANE If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically ... J. B. S. HALDANE I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ... J. B. S. HALDANE Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we k... CAESAR J. B. SQUITTI Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics. J. B. S. HALDANE I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ... B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o... B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc... B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A... B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go... B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha... B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&... B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you... B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa... B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's... B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me... B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di... B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh... B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ... B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u... B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er... B. B. KING