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Scholar Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Stanley Fish
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All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.
Martin E. Marty
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True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
Claudio Magris
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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Origen
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Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.
Wendy Doniger
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Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?
Wendy Doniger
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Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.
Wendy Doniger
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God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.
Scot McKnight
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An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
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Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.
Frank Partnoy
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual if with your superiors, no finer.
William P. Alford
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What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.
Kevin Gutzman
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The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
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Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.
Stanley Fish
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To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.
Origen
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Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
F. F. Bruce
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
F. F. Bruce
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Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings.
Diana L. Eck
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit
Origen
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The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest book .
Wendy Doniger
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
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