"Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience."

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Source : Rowan Williams (2007). “Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief”, p.50, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Rowan Williams

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“I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.”
“Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.”

Source : Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers
“If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.”
“There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.”
“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”

Source : Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde
“Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.”
“I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.”

Source : "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.today.com. August 26, 2013.
“Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.”

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