A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
Commerce unites; religion divides.
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
How much. . . did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um. . . " "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before. " "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.
We wait always for something that does not come.
One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion. " And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses. "
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.