Quotes about News

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.

The news enacted by Elisha is reperformed by Jesus. It is, subsequently, performed in many other venues, sometimes by the followers of Jesus, sometimes by others who stand alongside the faithful followers of Jesus. In every such performance of the news, it is Gospel truth enacted as practical transformation that settled power can neither enact nor prevent.

The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.