#les

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#discipleship #hope #inspirational #justice #religion

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cannot #cloned #eat #grafted #must

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beforehand #bottom #certain #experience #find

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#electrons #entities #like #nevertheless #physics

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#believed #down #i #lay #never

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#better #conduct #dad #free #got

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#always #blest #eternal #human #man

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#disappointed #expects #man #never #ninth

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgetting #forgot #happy #how #lot