Arengos Quotes & Sayings

She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader. — Glen Duncan

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters. — Brandon Cruz

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. — Dalton Trumbo

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference. — Marshall Karp

An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little. — Anton Chekhov

Dialogue with Catholics and other nonevangelical Christians offered some correction to the Church Growth movement's fixation on cultural accommodation and baptism rates. However - save for those few who converted - evangelicals attracted to other Christian traditions have made those traditions their own. They assemble do-it-yourself liturgies from a hodgepodge of monastic prayers and mystics' visions. They lionize medieval dissenters - Celtic monks, or renegade Franciscans - but don't understand their broader Catholic context. Without quite realizing what they have done, evangelicals often use these ancient teachings and practices to confirm, rather than challenge, their own assumptions. History becomes a sidekick to one's twenty-first-century journey with Jesus. — Molly Worthen