"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Religious Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Practice Quotes

“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!”
“Potential has a shelf life.”
“Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long...”
“The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.”
“People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.
“I know, and know of, people who said they have taken a hit of crack and never tried it again. I overheard one woman in LA say she took one hit and it mad her feel so good, she was afraid to try it again. I am not a doctor, but I do believe that if one is predisposed to addiction, taking one hit may be all it takes. Certainly that is how it worked out for me.”
“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”

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