May 21, 2004
Bart Millard on Pain
(Filed under: Spirituality)"Even with all the right Sunday school answers, sometimes the best thing you can do is be brutally honest and say, 'This hurts a whole lot and really ticks me off.' God is big enough to handle it."
-Bart Millard, lead singer and primary songwriter for MercyMe, the chart-topping Christian band behind the hit song "I Can Only Imagine." In the span of a few months before the release of their latest album, Undone, the band dealt with the death of nine people in some way connected to the band. (Source: CCM, May 2004)
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Bethany Dillon on Jesus
(Filed under: Celebrity)"I don't want to promote myself; I want to promote Jesus."
-15-year-old newcomer to Christian music Bethany Dillon, who recently released her debut album, Enhanced. (Source: CCM, May 2004)
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Kevin Smith Thanks God
(Filed under: Spirituality)"It pisses the wife off a bit, but God always gets thanked first."
-Kevin Smith, director of Dogma, a film soundly bashed by evangelicals for being blasphemous. (Source: People, April 5, 2004)
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Patricia Heaton on Hollywood
(Filed under: Celebrity)"This business tests you constantly: the materialism, the pride, the ambition. Paul says, 'I have died to myself and its no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.' We're supposed to 'die to ourselves' -- and I'm paying a publicist $3,000 a month to make sure everybody knows who I am?"
-Actress Patricia Heaton, star of Everybody Loves Raymond. (Source: People, April 5, 2004)
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Patricia Heaton on Jesus
(Filed under: Spirituality)"I think Jesus is a scary subject. God you can make into anything you want. But confronted [with Jesus] you have to say, 'I believe that or I don't.' It's very powerful."
-Actress Patricia Heaton, star of Everybody Loves Raymond. (Source: People, April 5, 2004)
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May 18, 2004
Lindsay Lohan on not Drinking
(Filed under: Substance Abuse)"We don't have to get stupid and drunk—we can have fun without drinking. You're not supposed to drink in clubs till you're 21, so we have Red Bulls ... I don't want to have a drink and have someone whip out a camera phone and Disney getting it. It's not worth it! I don't want to risk my career for a night of having fun."
-Actress Lindsay Lohan, who starred in the teen comedies Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and Mean Girls. (Source: Seventeen, June 2004)
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May 17, 2004
Rebecca St. James on Britney Spears
(Filed under: Appearance)"The biggest thing I feel for Britney is I feel sad for her. I also feel sad for the nine or 10-years-old watching her who see her dressing in a very promiscuous fashion, almost asking for people to treat her as a sex object. They are going to start dressing that way too."
-Christian pop star Rebecca St. James, who recently released a live worship CD and greatest hits album and is a spokesperson for the True Love Waits abstinence campaign. (Source: CNN.com, May 16, 2004)
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May 13, 2004
Madeleine L'Engle on Expectations
(Filed under: Artistry)"I expected it to be bad, and it is."
-Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time on her expectations of the movie. (Source: Newsweek, May 7, 2004)
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Madeleine L'Engle on Faith
(Filed under: Spirituality)"I dare you to believe in God. I dare you to think [our existence] wasn’t an accident."
-Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time. (Source: Newsweek, May 7, 2004)
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Madeleine L'Engle on God
(Filed under: Spirituality)"I sometimes think God is a shit--and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a shit."
-Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, speaking her mind because she's 85 years old and can say things like that. (Source: Newsweek, May 7, 2004)
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May 12, 2004
Kurt Vonnegut on the Beatitudes
(Filed under: Politics)"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere."
-Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five (Source: In These Times, May 10, 2004)
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