All Quotes

"For Manchester is the place where people do things… ‘Don’t talk about what you are going to do, do it.’ That is the Manchester habit. And in the past through the manifestation of this quality the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to think without shackles."

"Sarcasm is a Manchester trait."

"Manchester has its own pride and London has its sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well"

"The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed Baby, was the first computer to store and run a program from memory, just like most computers today."

"Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down Lesley Anne and your pretty white beads Oh, John, you'll never be a man And you'll never see your home again Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for"

"You arrive at the building to a very minimal sign, then, in the entrance, you pass through doors that had 5 and 1 cut out of them"

"It wasn’t your greasy, beer-stained 1970s club, it was a slice of New York in Manchester."

"Making money didn’t seem that relevant. It wasn’t at the forefront of what was important."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"I will use my voice for the good."

"Now I have a solid person in my life who I can really count on."

"The abandonment in which the Crucified One is left by the Father makes us understand what we have been freed and saved from, namely, the definitive loss of God, which no personal effort, apart from grace, could ever have spared us."

"The crucifixion of Jesus in itself has nothing eschatological about it. Many men have been crucified throughout history. What matters is the meaning of his death. An observer sees in it only an insignificant or, strictly speaking, painful fact. For the historian, “it is hardly probable that Jesus was crucified as a messianic prophet, in the same way as other agitators.” For the non-believer, the crucifixion simply marks the end of an idealist. The bare facts are nothing; their true essence is their meaning. But meaning is always the object of revelation and election, which explains precisely why, while everyone agrees on the death of Jesus, there is absolute disagreement on its meaning, which constitutes its profound reality."

"The focus of his prayer and his ardent supplication, repeated three times with insistence and prostration, was that the Father would take “this cup” away from him [...] The truth is that “this cup” represented in Christ's eyes the ‘how’ he would have to drink the sins and infamy of humanity, the “how” he would have to appear on the cross, taking upon himself the most scandalous sins of men: adultery, murder, blasphemy. On the threshold of crucifixion, he had to decide: would he accept to be the author of all these sins, so that his crucifixion and death would be possible?"

"When the Son dies on the cross, he dies the death of all sinners and all saints. The moment of his death means for all the dead a shift to the plane of eternity, which will be experienced by each of them, since the Lord, through his death, has saved each of them. :*Adrienne von Speyr, Il mistero della morte (Das Geheimnis des Todes, 1953), translation into Italian by Giacomo Coccolini, Centro ambrosiano, Milano, 2011. ISBN 978-88-8025-820-9, p. 80."

"Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

"What the disciples observed regarding the resurrection therefore contains, in any case, an objective element that is visible to the outside world, observable, perfectly demonstrable, and verifiable: the fact of the empty tomb."

"But Tertullian himself recognizes that the dogma of the resurrection of the Christian God is identical to that of the Persian religion."

"Modern man cannot understand... how the Resurrection of Jesus could be an event that unleashed a vital force that man can now make his own through the sacraments. This seems absurd to the biologist, since death is not a problem for him. The idealist, of course, speaks of a life that escapes death, but cannot imagine that this life is given by the fact that a dead person returns to physical life. God's action, which in these conditions would give life back to man, seems to him incomprehensibly inserted into the course of nature. He cannot recognize God's action as something that touches him personally in this natural event, which is as miraculous as the resurrection of a dead person, which, on the other hand, is unbelievable."

"The resurrection of Christ contains the answer to the most universal of human aspirations: that evil and injustice will not prevail forever."

"The texts that bear witness to the Resurrection of Jesus are first and foremost confessions of faith. The Gospel accounts are of a particularly difficult construction and literary genre: they presuppose the formulas of faith or the kerygma. It is impossible to reconcile the narratives of the four Gospels. Their authentic interpretation should not aim to harmonize them but should take their divergences as a starting point. This poses serious problems for the unprepared reader."

"The resurrection is not an event that concerns only the Lord, but becomes alive and effective when it takes root in the hearts of the disciples, when they cannot contain the joy in their hearts, which overflows in words of proclamation and witness."

"The events of Easter represented a veritable big bang, which, however, did not merely overturn the emotional state of his disciples (taking them from fear to enthusiasm), but above all triggered in them an enormous hermeneutical effort regarding the figure of Jesus himself, leading them from a low opinion of him to absolutely extraordinary confessions of faith."

"The resurrection of Jesus is like the first eruption of a volcano. It shows that the fire of God is already burning within the world, which will bring everything back into the ardor of its light."

":Karl Rahner, quoted in Carlo Maria Martini, Il grande vulcano dell'amore di Dio per l'uomo, omelia pronunciata durante la Messa in Duomo nel giorno di Pasqua, 23 April 2000, fondazionecarlomariamartini.it, 21 April 2020."

"Most people believe in the resurrection of Christ, but very few see it clearly."

"Christ is not only the One who rose from the dead, but also the One who raises the dead. This change in man is the clearest demonstration of the Resurrection. Man is awakened, he rises with the power of metanoia, faith, and hope."

"For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."

"(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?"

"[Given Christ's descent into hell] there is no death that cannot be recovered, not even the most damned, because who among the children of men can compare himself to the eternal Son, when it comes to the experience of eternal origin from God the Father, of eternal dependence and ever-new outpouring from him, of existence in the source of generation? Who, then, like him, can evaluate in the ultimate depth what it means to be abandoned, forsaken by the Father? What “poena damni” is comparable to this?"

"O madman of love! Was it not enough for you to become incarnate, that you also wanted to die? Was death not enough, that you also descended into hell, drawing out the holy fathers, to fulfill your truth and mercy in them? For your goodness promises good to those who serve you in truth. Therefore, you descended into limbo, to draw out of pain those who had served you and give them the fruit of their labors."

"In the descent of Holy Saturday into the underworld, in which von Speyr is given to participate mystically, Christ encountered and defeated sin, the reality hostile to God and man cast out of the world. Passing through this reality without life or breath of spirit in the extreme night of truly cadaverous obedience, Jesus carries the cross beyond sin, beyond the evil of the world. Hence von Speyr's conclusion, which reaches that of Barth and Origen: the ultimate reality cannot be man's no, but God's yes. And if Hell is so real as to cause pain and suffering (it is therefore absurd to speak of its non-existence), it is also true that, since Christ passed through it and defeated it with his obedient death, we can reasonably hope that it is empty."

"Before rising again, he ‘'descended into hell’', into the dark depths of history and matter, to give it energy and direction towards light, love, and freedom. If I begin to think that in the depths of matter and of my flesh, in the darkest parts of my being, he descended to illuminate and transfigure, to resurrect love and beauty, then I too participate in the resurrection of Christ who rises for eternity from the depths of my being, energy that ascends, seed of life, germinating life."

"The descent into hell is the ultimate consequence of the incarnation. The Son was first a simple God in himself, pure immensity. Then he became man, thousands of relationships with other men, thousands of changing and temporal states, efforts, and initiatives. He experienced all this in a fleeting destiny, in something without boundaries, which was always available to the infinity of the Father. Now he still lacks the knowledge of pure non-being God, of pure opposition to God, so to speak, of simple limitation in limitlessness."

"Your Son, Father, after dying on the cross, also accepted to be sent to hell, to the most abandoned and desolate place where no living person has ever set foot. He did this to participate more fully in all your mysteries, to show you that he is never tired of your service and is never satiated with his love for you. With this surplus of his descent into hell, he went beyond the surplus of the cross."

"A conception of citizenship that is more inclusive of diverse, non-Turkish group would be the sign that everybody in Turkey has equal rights and this could contribute to the improvement of Turkey."

"The election of Dora is really a good sign for the country. Dora is known for, as a lawyer, often defending the Christians involved in trials and is a point of reference for the defense of their rights."

"He worked hard. And now, he deserves to rest."

"Will your tongue still remember the taste of my lips?"

"I don't wanna die so young. Got so much to do."

"I'ma fuck up my life. We gon' party all night. She don't care if I die."

"Like a flash his love vanished A trinket gets dangled in your world you reach for it and it’s gone"

"Mother, were he abroad I’d bear the separation but to live in separate houses in the same village is worse than death"

"You may think you have much to say about the night spent with your lover. The whisperings, the teasings, the little quarrels, and even how he smelt. But my friends, in truth from the moment his hand felt my skirt I remember nothing."

"The scholar Marshak summarizes thus: “From the third to the eighth century Sughd [Sogdiana], which had originally lagged behind its neighbours to the south and west, became one of the most advanced countries and the leader of all Transoxania. It was neither a powerful state itself nor firmly subjected to any of the neighbouring empires. From the second or first century BCE, each district had developed independently, maintaining ancient community traditions. Private individuals such as merchants, missionaries and mercenary soldiers were extremely active and penetrated into distant lands. Thus political isolation did not entail cultural isolation.”"

"H. Kern in his book Over het woord Zarathushtra (1867) states, “the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related to the Old- Indian language (Vedic), and in particular, that of the Vedas, that without exaggeration it can be called a dialect thereof.”"

"In Christ ascended into heaven, in fact, it is our very humanity, the humanity he assumed in the Incarnation, that is raised to the highest splendour of its dignity."

"We are called to incarnate Jesus in our lives, to clothe our lives with Him, so that men may see Him in us, touch Him, recognise Him."

"The wayfarer who does not reveal himself and hides himself, but who nevertheless disturbs us... It is beautiful, but I think that any discussion of it spoils it. It is too indescribable: the supper was then depicted in paintings, and we see it in our minds, but even more evocative is the walk at sunset. It is the posthumous episode that touches me most, when Christ enters the house of the apostles, where there is none of the indescribable divinity of the travelling companion of Emmaus. The divinity that you do not recognise, but sense."

"Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”"