Friday, February 18, 2005

A Few Thoughts from....

A is for Abductive

Children laugh about four hundred times a day, while the average adult laughs 15.

We are not what we know, we are what we are willing to learn.

Beauty will save the world--Dosteovesky

The limits of my language are the limits of my world--Wittgenstein

If the good news is in your heart, please notify your face--Tony Campolo

Concepts create idols. Only wonder understands--Gregory of Nyssa

I am astonished at the people who are not astonished--Chesterton

Religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building--Bono

A finite point has no meaning unless it has an infinite reference point--Sarte

The church should be full of people who seek questions rather than answers, mystery instead of solutions, wonder instead of explanations--Michael Yaconelli

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts--Einstein

The old paradigm taught that if you have the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching--Leith Anderson

Writing is a sacred calling--but so are gardening, dentistry, and plumbing--so don't put on airs--Garrison Keillor

Better to doubt what is obscure, that dispute about things uncertain--Augustine

In everyone's life there is one big "but"--Pee Wee Herman in Pee Wees Big Adventure

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