#ox

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#courage #even #his #keep #life

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#benjamin #cohen #com #come #could

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#box #box office #could #i #mean

There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#another #bag #believe #boxing #coming

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. ↗

— John Fiske

#crumbling #everywhere #into #orthodox #ruins

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#forty #i #little #oxford #past

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#boxed #either #heroes #into #life