Jo Bell Quotes
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.
Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.
Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.
Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.