Provoking Quotes - Page 14

• As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Children, Powerful

  "Sir Patrick Stewart speaks out against domestic violence" by Caroline Siede, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

  Francis Chan

  Beautiful, Jesus, Brother

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.77, David C Cook

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• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Thought Provoking, Study

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

  Martin Niemoller

  Thought Provoking, Catholic, Lasts

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Thought Provoking, Drops In The Ocean

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• We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Thought Provoking, Worry, Church

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• Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Character, Challenges

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Thought Provoking, Matter, Pay

  Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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• The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Track, Justice, Thought Provoking

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• Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• As a man is, so he sees.

  William Blake

  Motivational, Men, Thought Provoking

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Moving, Thoughtful

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• A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Boys, Doors

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

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• It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Brave

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.11, Heinemann

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• My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

  Chinua Achebe

  Fall, Son, Thought Provoking

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• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  Garry Trudeau

  Nice, Military, Moving

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• Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.28, Applewood Books

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• Another name for peace is development.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Challenges, Inspire

  Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

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• All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Teacher, Skills, Challenges

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• If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Challenges, Inspire, Poverty

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