All Quotes

"There’s fantastic work being done at both national and diocesan level."

"Younger people and children ex­­peri­­­­ence and consume reality differ­ently today."

"I’m fascinated by what it means to be an embodied person in Western society."

"It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history."

"Rural women are the backbone for families, communities and nations, but they're suffering the worst impacts of climate change and conflict and go unheard in legislation and remain unprotected and unsupported.""

"The world has changed, we realise we must get ourselves out there more. Word of mouth only goes so far, but if you don't have a social presence, then to some extent you don't exist."

"It is the desire to satisfy people and I can’t always be sure I've done enough or got it right. Sometimes it is impossible, but I own my mistakes, which I think is important as well."

"People think that only men have to build the nation. It is not true. Women start building the nation from home. It is most unfortunate that elections in Nigeria do not involve a lot of women and that is why we don’t have anybody sponsoring us. We see that election in Nigeria is mostly for men, but if you will put in your quota and I put in my quota, we will go places."

"Any woman working in the civil service is developing the nation or building the nation from her own angle, and if they are lucky to be in politics and become one of the ministers in any ministry, they can as well contribute more to the building of the nation."

"Nigeria is like a big toilet, where people defecate in open places."

"Landlords build houses without toilets and even where there are toilets, these toilets are converted to stores."

"I, therefore, propose that open defecation be banned and men, particularly, should not come out of their houses to urinate"

"The wrong way to speak a language is to not speak at all,especially if you are young."

"Sì, mi disse che con le mie gambe avrei fatto molta strada…ma io con le gambe preferii camminarci."

"Try to work on something that has a purpose."

"We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson"

"If you fail, you don’t die. Once you realise that, everything is possible."

"I knew very little about public companies at that point."

"I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Who is this person?"

"I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do."

"That's what you do after dinner."

"I just felt like it was time."

"Time for me, time for the company."

"You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they require very long-term choices and long-term plans"

"Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away."

"We felt that this is the ecosystem the AP has supported since its founding and that it's a space that we need to step in and help shore up."

"Our intellectual property has to be protected. Why is that important? Because we put journalists on the frontlines every single day. We’ve just talked about the huge number of risks that come with that. And that’s why we have to protect our intellectual property and [second] we have to achieve a fair value for that."

"We’re a licensing business so we have a good framework … I think it is really important where those two principles can be respected — that you get independent fact-based and nonpartisan journalism information or content into the training of these algorithms."

"How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail / And pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale! / How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws / And welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws."

"Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes / He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases."

"Just then flew by a monstrous crow, as black as a tar-barrel / Which frightened both the heroes so, they quite forgot their quarrel."

"Curiouser and curiouser"

"You know you say things are ‘much of a muchness’—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness"

"Christians are justified by the righteousness of Christ whereby they dwell in him and are thus acceptable to God, but this is not on account of any inherit righteousness of their own. The righteousness of sanctification is that whereby we grow in grace by virtue of being in Christ. It is a grateful response to a gratuitous justification."

"The righteousness whereby we are accepted by God is the righteousness of Christ imputed to us when we are incorporated in Christ."

"One of the spiritual hazards of scholarship is that it can become Gnostic. A lifetime of submersion in conceptual and subtle complexities with an ever more sophisticated vocabulary can seduce some of the best scholars into elitism, inept pedagogy, and irrelevance."

"Neither creeds nor correct doctrines are the objects of our faith. They did not die for our salvation. Yet, as faithful guidelines to the inevitable implications of scripture and boundaries for what can be called authentic Christianity, they are far more important than is currently appreciated. There are symbols that point to God but, like dogs being trained to fetch, we look at the trainer’s finger rather than toward that to which the finger points. Faithfulness to correct doctrine and loyalty to the creeds is not the same thing as trust in the God whom the creeds describe. This is the perennial temptation of orthodoxy itself. It is like tennis players who mark off the court, put up the net, sit down and call that “tennis.”"

"Christianity did not and cannot start with people who have forsaken sin. It receives them and begins to free them from the bondage that is sin."

"St. Paul established the guidelines for all subsequent orthodoxy that race, nationality, degree of servitude, and gender are not barriers to identification with Christ’s saving humanity, and it is an Antiochene heresy to say that any of these differences is a barrier."

"But yeah, it’s safe to say I’ve always been really ambitious. I’ve always been really ambitious. And I heard… it’s interesting. You talk to a lot of sector CEOs."

"“Ye shall be as gods” is as flattering now as it has been since the Garden of Eden. “All is one,” “all is God,” and “all is well” is as attractive to adults as dessert before dinner is to a child. Would the realities of the Balkans, inner-city blight, troubled marriages, rebellious children, and irresponsible parents be any less difficult to solve if we all believed we were gods? On the contrary, humans trying to be gods is precisely what is wrong in the Balkans, our cities, our marriages, our children, our parents, and in ourselves."

"A common expression: “heaven for the climate, but hell for the company” is an indication how people react to Pharisaical Christians. They would rather be in hell with other sinners than in heaven with those who thought that they were good enough to be there."

"If our hope lies in human ability to make all things right, the tendency is to believe that some historical action, program or ideal could bring the ultimate victory for which everyone yearns. No matter how commendable and beneficial such programs or ideals, they will inevitably become occasions of dangerous and destructive idols."

"The saints testify that the deeper into sanctification one goes the clearer one sees one’s sins. The more majestic the vision of God the more unworthy sinners see themselves in his reflection. Confidence is rare in the face of the text: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; so that each one may receive good or evil according to what he has done in the body” (2 Cor 5:10). Confidence before such a test may be a mere product of limited self-knowledge or a small god."

"The Sermon on the Mount is not a blue print for society or an individual’s rule of life. It is an introduction to the passion, and invitation to Good Friday."

"The Sermon is not some elevated ideal that we are to stretch and strive for, but a window through which to see God’s kingdom. It is not a set of rules by which to live but a vision which enables us to die to self. This vision empties us of any confidence or trust in our own center. Humility is the only appropriate posture before the cost of God’s love at the crucifixion."

"Clergy often make the mistake of thinking, when they preach from one of the Gospels, that they are preaching good news. Most of the gospel material is not gospel but what leads up to the good news of Good Friday and Easter. A large part of the Gospels is conviction of sinners, rebuke of Israel’s unfaithfulness, disappointments of expectation, and declaring salvation as a human impossibility."

"The Sermon on the Mount is the necessary, rigorous, and devastating purging of Pharisee yeast. It’s chemotherapy for the Pharisee cancer. Any confidence in one’s own righteousness before God has no authentic way to wiggle through chapters 5–7 of St. Matthew. Any genuine pilgrimage through this Sermon leaves us bereft of self-righteousness, with no pedestals from which to judge other sinners. Jesus, in these passages, leaves us in the only posture legitimately possible on Good Friday: on our knees with empty hands to receive the incomparable and desperately needed mercy of God."

"The Sermon on the Mount is a deeper unfolding of the law of Moses. It leaves no hope that human goodness can replace (or make waste of) the costly betrayal, rejection, passion, suffering, death, and resurrection of God’s action in Jesus Christ."

"The trust that there will be justice is a Christian trust. But it includes justice for us as well, which none of us can endure. As long as I trust that my relative goodness needs less mercy than that of the murderous Idi Amin (genocidal dictator of Uganda), I am where Charles Wesley was prior to his conversion. This is not to say that there are no significant differences between Amin’s atrocities and my sins. But when the gold medal Olympic swimmer, Josh Davis, and I are in a boat together, fishing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the boat sinks, it is ultimately unimportant that Josh can swim a great deal better and longer than I can. We both drown. God’s justice is bigger than the Pacific Ocean."