Danny Stiver:
CLASS OF 1972
Hillcrest High SchoolClass of 1972
Springfield, MO
Danny's Story
Danny is from Springfield, Missouri. Danny's schools include Hillcrest High School.
Books Danny likes include The Ones I Just Read, Talent Is Overrated, Heloise and Abelard. Movies Danny likes include The Matrix, Serenity, Outlaw josey wales. TV shows Danny likes include Fringe, Lost, Smallville.
One of Danny's favorite quotes is:""The most effective antidote to fundamentalist perversions, therefore, may well be to attend to the 'deep ground' that no religion can ever fully appropriate. Every religion is capable of taking this action against itself, brushing against its own dogmatic grain, purging itself of its pathologies so as to reach the silent source that not only surpasses but disarms it." Richard Kearney. Anatheism: Returning to God After God, "Conclusion"
I like this quotation from the last lines of Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith, "We speak because we have questions, not just answers, and our questions cleanse our answers and enliven our world." (p. 232)
"I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism." -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978)
“All sorrows may be borne if you may put them into a story.” (Isak Dineson, cited by Paul Ricoeur) Ricoeur adds, “The story of a life continues to be refigured by all the ... stories a subject tells about himself or herself. This refiguration makes this life itself a cloth woven of stories told.”
Another by Ricoeur, in Reflections on the Just, "In the moral order, the past leaves not only inert traces, or residues, but also dormant energies, unexplored sources which we might assimilate to something like unkept promises .... This dormant character of as-yet-unfolded potentialities is what allows for resumptions, ...Expand for more
rebirths, reawakenings, through which the new gets connected with the old.... It is always after the fact that one discerns in the past what did not reach maturity in its own time." (pp. 181-82)
From a fascinating, fairly recent, revisionist reading of Augustine by James O'Donnell: "Augustine was lucky that he never had to read anything like Augustine." (125) "The raptures and virtues of the few justify the rigors and discipline and guilty consciences of the many. That's Augustine all over." (329) "He [Augustine] offers us no easy solutions, and that is kind of him." (332)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian (1892-1971)
Another by Niebuhr, "We must always seek the truth in our opponents' error and the error in our own truth."
"It is as if there were a cross unseen, standing on its undiscovered hill, far back in the ages, out of which there were sounding always just the same deep voice of suffering love and patience that was heard by mortal ears from the sacred hill of calvary." Horace Bushnell, Vicarious Sacrifice, p. 31.
The Trough
by Judy Brown
There is a trough in waves,
a low spot
where horizon disappears
and only sky
and water
are our company.
And there we lose our way
unless
we rest, knowing the wave will bring us
to its crest again.
There we may drown
if we let fear
hold us in its grip and shake us
side to side,
and leave us flailing, torn, disoriented.
But if we rest there
in the trough,
in silence,
being in the low part of the wave,
keeping our energy and
noticing the shape of things,
the flow,
then time alone
will bring us to another
place
where we can see
horizon, see land again,
regain our sense
of where
we are,
and where we need to swim.".
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