"Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves."

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Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 186, September 19, 2006.

John C. Danforth

#Religious Quotes #Heart Quotes #Caring Quotes

“I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.”
“He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.”
“If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.”
“One question I often ask is why the church doesn't set aside funds specifically to seed new ideas. A lot of our money tends to go into existing, literally physical buildings, or existing parishes, programs, and schools, and we have nothing that is very explicitly dedicated toward new ventures of all kinds that would help parishes, help education, help catechesis.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press

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