Quotes About Movement

We seem to be forgetting to ask the time honored question of "are we sacrificing quality for quantity?" When in history has everyone been necessary for revolution? How did we get locked in this nonsense, a posture people take toward revolutionary movements when they really do not want to act? "One man you can trust is better than an army of cowards."6 Too

All you need in politics is to find or create a big fire that will keep the iron or the multitude hot.

New trends will always shake us from left to right, as long as we don't know ourselves, like a pendulum swing.

Perhaps, it would be wise to flow with time; like a leaf carried by the stream of water.

There is no braking system on the boat. Either go forward or stop altogether.

We are always pushing forward, despite the repetition of days.

Ever since the New Deal, those on the Right have sensed the American polity's transformation with growing discomfort, but around 2009, when the Tea Party movement mobilized, that discomfort turned to anger.

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A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.

Whether we believe in Jesus, whether we approve of his teaching, let alone whether we like the look of the movement that still claims to follow him, we are bound to see his crucifixion as one of the pivotal moments in human history.

A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.

There was no template of expectations out of which, granted the crucifixion of Jesus, one might have anticipated the sophisticated range of interpretation that the early Christian movement in fact produced, understanding the death of Jesus as a messianic victory and connecting it with the long-awaited divine return.

Everything possible had to be done to stamp out a movement that would impede the true purposes of the One God of Israel, whose divine plans Saul and his friends believed were at last on the verge of a glorious fulfillment—until, on the Damascus Road, Saul came to believe that these plans had indeed been gloriously fulfilled, but in a way he had never imagined.

His larger position is what we might call messianic eschatology: if Jesus is Israel's Messiah, then Israel's God is regrouping his people around Jesus, just as other first-century messianic movements tried to corral loyal Jews around their central figure.

A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.

What God had done in and through Jesus was, from Paul's perspective, the launching of a heaven-and-earth movement, not the offer of a new "otherworldly" hope.

When we see the victory of Jesus in relation to the biblical Passover tradition, reshaped through the Jewish longing for the "forgiveness of sins" as a liberating event within history, we see the early Christian movement not as a "religion" in the modern sense at all, but as a complete new way of being human in the world and for the world.

Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?

tarikh,siasate gozashte,va siasat,tarikhe hal ast

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Left Foot, Right In

I like to skip because I can't help but smile when I'm skipping (either I'm too uncoordinated to frown and skip at the same time or else it's a physical impossibility)!

A clock only turns one direction

The best cure for sadness is doing something.