Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Independence Day"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997) <br class="br">In Concert <br class="br">Context: It starts off so beautifully and then at the end of that Psalm, the last verse of that Psalm is “How very blessed is the man who dashes the little one’s heads against the rocks.” This is not the sort of scripture you read at a pro-life meeting. But it’s in there none the less. Which is the thing about the Bible that’s why it always cracks me up when people say ‘Well in Dududududududududududududu it says’ you kinda go ‘Wow it says a lot of things in there.’ Proof texting is a very dangerous thing. I think if we were given the scriptures it was not so that we could prove that we were right about everything. If we were given the scriptures it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing. Which is what makes them so much fun to read, especially if you are not a fundamentalist.
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Independence Day"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
Source: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 155)
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“I guess God can use the mafia, but I would like God to use the church.”
Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution
Source: The Irresistible Revolution (2006), p. 63
“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
They Call Me Coach (1972)
Variant: Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
“And my God, Ramón was just a little five-year-old kid like the rest of us.”
Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer
Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)
Walter Hilton (1340–1396) English Augustinian mystic.
Book I, ch. 41 (p. 47)
The Ladder of Perfection (1494)