Monday, January 9, 2012

Quote of the Day: Desposyni: Stephen Colbert on Pain

Here is a great post that showed up in my feed today that quotes an interview on Stephen Colbert

There's some wisdom here. From a big NYT profile of the TV host:
In 1974, when Colbert was 10, his father, a doctor, and his brothers Peter and Paul, the two closest to him in age, died in a plane crash while flying to a prep school in New England. “There’s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone’s becoming a comedian, but I’m not sure that’s a proven equation in my case,” he told me. “I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so.” He added, in a tone so humble and sincere that his character would never have used it: “She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain — it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
Yup, much Wisdom


Desposyni: Stephen Colbert on Pain
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Historical Jesus - Two Centuries Worth of Citations - YouTube

Mariano Grinbank has posted a great video that corresponds to an article he posted a short time ago listing two early centuries worth of citations that refer to Jesus from  (most of them) extrabiblical sources.
 




You can read the original article at   http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/historical-jesus-two-centuries-worth-

Historical Jesus - Two Centuries Worth of Citations - YouTube
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