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still_unsure
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| Posted 9/29/2001 10:00 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hi all:
I enjoy reading the qutoes at the bottom of all your messages and I was wondering if I could start a thread where you could post some of your favourite quotations relating to the Open View, or any others you find interesting or inspirational. I'd like to collect them for future use(?).
I'll start with an interesting one I got second hand for I. Prgogine's book "The End of Certainty".
"What can be controlled is never completely real; what is real can never be completely controlled."
Vladimir Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins
Thanks,
Rob
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Springs
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| Posted 9/30/2001 1:59 PM (GMT -6) | | I think a thread of quotes would be cool.
I even suggested to CVM that we include all the quotes people have tagged onto their threads into the newsletter. 
Speaking of the newsletter. (Nice segway lousy teleologicalness)  I have heard it's in production and that most of the articles have been written and/or gathered.
Does God have a predetermined date picked out for the publication of the 'Open News'? Are there some unknown variables that have come into play that have delayed publication?
hmmmm
it's a mystery
-S
Nature's first green is gold. -Frost | | Back to Top | | |
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chance
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| Posted 10/1/2001 4:40 AM (GMT -6) | | As your teacher Mr. Spock is fond of saying, I like to think that there are (slight pause) possibliities --James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Next Generation
chance
A God who has fixed every detail beforehand may retire or die --Markus Barth | | Back to Top | | |
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chance
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| Posted 10/1/2001 4:57 AM (GMT -6) | | A few of my favorite quotes from Bob Enyart.
"Reasonable evidence is better than reasonable doubt."
"When a person hurts a child, it's not the act that's bad but the person."
"It's not a justice system. It's just a system."
chance
A God who has fixed every detail beforehand may retire or die --Markus Barth | | Back to Top | | |
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trosie
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| Posted 10/3/2001 6:23 PM (GMT -6) | | I came upon this writing by Francis de Sales while reciting some prayers from a prayer book to my Catholic dad. This is an inspiration especially considering our current state of affairs and the uncertainty we are living in:
"Have no fear for what tomorrow may bring. The same loving God who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and everyday. God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations."
WAY COOL, EH? 
trosie
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faith
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| Posted 10/4/2001 7:46 PM (GMT -6) | | On the home page of this site there's a page of cool quotes that are specifically open view related. Happy hunting!
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might-be-don
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| Posted 10/5/2001 2:31 AM (GMT -6) | | Another interesting one in light of recent events...
"Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither."
- Benjamin Franklin
A quote from Rev. Gregory A. Boyd, PhD ... " Has anyone seen my keys? " | | Back to Top | | |
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Modes of Thought
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| Posted 10/5/2001 12:15 PM (GMT -6) | | A quote from an ole' buddy of mine who will remain anonymous:
"rapture my biscuit!"
"Christianly understood, truth is obviously not to know the truth but to be the truth. Despite all modern philosophy, there is an infinite difference here..." SK | | Back to Top | | |
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TCTBU
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| Posted 10/9/2001 11:22 AM (GMT -6) | | still_unsure, you read my mind! I think this is a fantastic idea, basically b/c I'm a quotes finatic. I just find them so amusing. Recently I found a whole section devoted to quotes in the back if this big ol' 1975 dictionary of ours. I never knew it could be so resourceful. =)
I think I'm going to have a hard time remembering which quotes I got off of this site already from other people. There're so many good ones.
I apologize if some of my quotes aren't theological, dealing w/ the OV, or even that uplifting. Many times I enjoy quotes just b/c I find them amuzing and/or funny. So here's a few...
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears that it is true."
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Francis Bacon
Advancement of Learning
(I like this one)
"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." - Charles Steinmetz
I'm sorry if some of the people I quote happen to be "not worth quoting", for instance, if they happen be to a terrible person. I don't know who half of these people really are. I just like the quote and get them off a quotes page or some other place.
"Perhaps the most delightful of friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." - George Eliot
"Bad theology is the worst taskmaster of all." - Martin Luther | | Back to Top | | |
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Proverbs23_23
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| Posted 10/11/2001 2:29 AM (GMT -6) | |
For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak,
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.
For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, =)
because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. ~!~
~God
"and now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love"
1Corinthians 13:13
"In unity there is strength" Aesop
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chance
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| Posted 10/12/2001 12:58 AM (GMT -6) | | "What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries -- these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the life of the soul. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
chance
A God who has fixed every detail beforehand may retire or die --Markus Barth | | Back to Top | | |
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TCTBU
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| Posted Today 7:22 AM (GMT -6) | | "An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool." - Moliere
"The learn'd is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more." - Alexander Pope - An Essay on Man
"I know that I am not yet the person I can be, but I thank God I'm not the person I used to be."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to the earth is only a stone." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Kavanogh
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire
"The way to Hell's a seeming Heav'n." - Francis Quarles Emblems Bk. ii
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?"
- Einstein | | Back to Top | | |
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geej
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| Posted Today 4:54 PM (GMT -6) | | Ahh, my favorite quotes...
On the lighter side:
"ladies and gentlemen take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice."
Dr Sydney Freedman, M*A*S*H
A little more serious
"Trust No One"
X Files
Geej
PS: there are more serious quotes that I love but I have to find them in my files (stacks of scrap paper stuffed in my filing cabinet)...I write them down and save them for rainy days.
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TCTBU
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| Posted 11/10/2001 3:06 PM (GMT -6) | | Oh! I have so many more.
Here's a little Skrewtape for y'all.
"Surely you know that if a man cannot be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches."
The Skrewtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
"In a word, the future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity."
- Skrewtape
"For the present is the point at which time touches eternity."
- Skrewtape
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?"
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