Supplicating The Guru Quotes & Sayings

A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people's responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts district to the suburbs. We asked people to say the first word that came to mind in response to each word we said: "snow," "eagles" (it's Philly), "teenagers," and finally "Christian." When people heard the word Christian, they stopped in their tracks. I will never forget their responses: "fake," "hypocrites," "church," "boring." One guy even said, "used-to-be-one" (sort of one word). I will also never forget what they didn't say. Not one of the people we asked that day said "love." No one said "grace." No one said "community. — Shane Claiborne

Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out. — George Carlin

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. — Sam Ewing

Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer. — Geoff Dyer

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50. — Jean Dieudonne

ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions. — Amor Towles

You think you know yourself so well, but what you end up knowing is the simple things. — Mark Winkler

It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting. — Hiroyuki Sanada

Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold. — Billy Graham

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. — Havelock Ellis