#ten

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. ↗

#existentialism #philosophy #existentialism

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension. ↗

— Alan Hirsch

#christianity #church #ecclesiology #holy-spirit

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#joke #our #our time #suicide #time

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#writing #first-sentence

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#ask #beautiful #could #descriptions #ever

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. ↗

— Henry Adams

#commit #day #existence #human #human race

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#had #i #kindergarten #same #since

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ↗