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I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#am #bad #came #good #good and bad

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#discipleship #sermon-on-the-mount #forgiveness

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without overcoming this double exclusion — without transposing the enemy from the sphere of the monstrous… into the sphere of shared humanity and herself from the sphere of proud innocence into the sphere of common sinfulness. When one knows [as the cross demonstrates] that the torturer will not eternally triumph over the victim, one is free to rediscover that person’s humanity and imitate God’s love for him. And when one knows [as the cross demonstrates] that God’s love is greater than all sin, one is free to see oneself in the light of God’s justice and so rediscover one’s own sinfulness. ↗

— Miroslav Volf

#god-s-love #miroslav-volf #forgiveness

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ↗

— Theodore White

#classical #grace #greek #how #intelligence

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#choice #had #i #salmon #smoked

A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#account #comprehensive #critical #economy #energy

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#election #election day #happens #matters #poll

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#government #power #without

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#crime #freedom #high #i #i believe

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#extricate #i #red #red tape #system