Quotes by Christian Smith

“The financial assistance is available. We are eager to help them, not only financially, but from a counseling standpoint, so we can try to make the process as easy as possible.”

“how inarticulate most teenagers were about their religious faith.”

“We are doing all of our regular day-to-day functions to the best of our ability, and its working.”

“The average homestead is valued at just over $203,000. The average taxpayer living in such a home will pay about $42 a year, ... In the current year, theyre paying $771, and its projected to go to $813.”

“There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.”

“What we want people to do if they will, is to continue to volunteer long-term. Give us a couple of weeks and well get them in the next training classes.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the time, its just sitting down (and) talking to them, walking them through the process. Every single one of them, after they receive their assistance, they understand. They know that it takes time to process cases.”

“More and more people will be going into the Katrina-impacted area. Then, youll see people go into the Rita-impacted area. This will go on for many, many months.”

“I am very excited to be a part of Libertys wrestling program.”

“It was sunny out. There was a little bit of a cloud over us and thats where it came down off the side of the cloud.”

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.