Macrocosmic Level Quotes & Sayings

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then ... So then if you aren't, you think, "Have I done something wrong?" — Gustav Ejstes

We don't start a job that we can't finish ... that's the American way. — Paul Wolfowitz

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10. — Ellen G. White

Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism, — Howard Zinn

Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment, and particularly the contempt and neglect of the seals of the covenant; — Matthew Henry

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read. — Molly Ringwald

To be quite honest, I'm not religious. — Colin Hanks

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions. — James K.A. Smith

Each of us, I had written, constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative. — Oliver Sacks

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty. — Eliza Griswold