Fiorenza Quotes & Sayings

Is safety the 'dream' that will kill all of my other 'dreams?' For the truth is, no 'real' dream is safe. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life. — Deb Caletti

All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy. — Emil Cioran

Humans are built to adapt. — Eben Alexander

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life. — Joseph Fiorenza

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. — Publilius Syrus

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable. — Bryant McGill

Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift as tardy as too slow. — William Shakespeare

I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world. — Edward Witten

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.' — Alanis Morissette

If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are. — Sam Keen

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza