"You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied."

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Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

Martin Walser

#Boxes Quotes #Has Beens Quotes

“I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.”
“I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.”
“People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made”
“In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”
“I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.”

Source : "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.
“Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.”
“If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.”
“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.131, University of Toronto Press

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