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‘Am I an historian?’ ‘Well, you’re in a pod. You’re wearing 13th-century clothing stained with someone else’s blood. You stink of beer and horse shit. Your hair is coming down. You’ve split your lip and your nose is bleeding. I’d say you’ve
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“Our culture’s secular wisdom does not affirm the reality of the Spirit; the only reality about which it is certain is the visible world of our ordinary experience. Accordingly, it looks to the material world for satisfaction and meaning. Its dominant values are what I call the three A’s–achievement, affluence, and appearance. We live our lives in accord with these values, with both our self-worth and level of satisfaction dependent upon how well we measure up to these cultural messages.”
― Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
― Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
“There was cunning in his eyes, the cleverness of a child who thought only of himself and how to get what he wanted.”
― The Encircling Sea
― The Encircling Sea
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“for the rich pity only each other, no?”
― The Last of the Just
― The Last of the Just
“It would have been better if the horsemen had kept their distance, using their javelins, but it was too much to expect prudence and good sense when three officers were together.”
― The Encircling Sea
― The Encircling Sea
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