For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gen...tiles...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling ...block comes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not su...rprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Van Gogh was right in saying that the method he had chosen could be compared to that of caricature. Caricature had always been "ex...pressionist," for the caricaturist plays with the likeness of his victim, and distorts it to express just what he feels about his fellow man. As long as these distortions of nature sailed under the flag of humour nobody seemed to find them difficult to understand. Humourous art was a field in which everything was permitted, because people did not approach it with the prejudices they reserved for Art with a capital A. But the idea of a serious caricature, of an art which deliberately changed the appearance of things not to express a sense of superiority, but maybe love, or admiration, or fear, proved indeed a stumbling block as Van Gogh had predicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Wh...ite Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotr...y with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability t...o stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »