#vision

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idolized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands set up by their own law, and judge one another and God accordingly. It is not we who build. Christ builds the church. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it. We must confess he builds. We must proclaim, he builds. We must pray to him, and he will build. We do not know his plan. We cannot see whether he is building or pulling down. It may be that the times which by human standards are the times of collapse are for him the great times of construction. It may be that the times which from a human point are great times for the church are times when it's pulled down. It is a great comfort which Jesus gives to his church. You confess, preach, bear witness to me, and I alone will build where it pleases me. Do not meddle in what is not your providence. Do what is given to you, and do it well, and you will have done enough.... Live together in the forgiveness of your sins. Forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#community #strategy #vision #dreams

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#bush #ending #expect #his #implement

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? ↗

— Bud Abbott

#after #boring #costello #gets #guy

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#casting #central #out #reporters #television

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#could #dad #exactly #friends #get

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ↗

— John Adams

#been #chicanery #division #faction #great

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arises #builder #enhancing #instinct #must

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#always #any #because #enough #good

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#looking #radio #really #television #these