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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. Ephraim Mirvis

Oppression Validating Virtue Wrestle Makes Scourge Prejudice Societies

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education Creation Thinking Habit Methodical

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. Ernest Dimnet

Philosophy Towards Conversations Serious Gravitate

Ideas are the root of creation. Ernest Dimnet

Creation Ideas Root

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Ernest Dimnet

History Past Only The History Of Far Us Interests Illuminates Present

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Ernest Dimnet

Soul Architecture Slowly Most Surely Arts Which Acts

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. Ernest Dimnet

Book State Like Readers Landscape Consciousness

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen. Eugene H. Peterson

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. Eugene H. Peterson

Death You Gift Somebody Think Incredible Intimacy About Through Miss Most Go Pastor Families Get Just Being Asked Incomparable

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else. Eugene H. Peterson

You Responsibility Else Part Anybody Anybody Else

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers. Eugene H. Peterson

People Saved Pedestal Easy Classify Put Simply Know Involved Also Him Pastor Pastors Who Her

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is. Eugene H. Peterson

Truth Loyalty You People Church Think Churches Tell Consumers Attracted Learn Another Shop Being Really Product

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. Eugene H. Peterson

You School Too Much Slow Too High High School Poem Poetry Absorb Involved Read Very Quickly Going Cannot Rhythms Much

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. Ezra Stiles

Never Errand America Forgotten Grand

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. Ezra Stiles

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. Ezra Stiles

Will Increase Diffusion Others States General Surpass Ultimately America Far Produce English Reasons Population United United States Believing

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. Ezra Stiles

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. Ezra Stiles

Property People Power Seized Aggregate Original Resides

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. Ezra Stiles

Nature Natural Society Seem Superiority Higher Arises Another Branch Dictates Being Interest Interested Then Should Whose Universal

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. Ezra Stiles

Me Liberty States Pleasure Though Secured Find Gives Somewhat Policies Modeled Public Each United United States Differently

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. Ezra Stiles

Rest Profit Virginia Indeed Carolina Constant Some Indies Merchants Well Trade Continent Were Losers West South South Carolina Received British

Our trade opens to all the world. Ezra Stiles

World Our All The World Opens Trade

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. Francis Arinze

People Problems Church Some People Other Others Religious Some Point Remarkable Pushed Development Towards Since Beyond Openness Catholic Catholic Church Greater Without Been Traditions Desirable Resisted

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. Francis Arinze

Church Vatican Salvation Necessary

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