I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.
I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
