"Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act."

-- Talal Asad

#People Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Belief Quotes

“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”
“I would think Trump would feel free to bomb Syria any time he wanted. Nobody clearly seems to care very much about if we bomb Syria. Whether or not we have authority, it's just not of interest to most people.”

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“Donâ€™t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.”
“I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.”

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“Strange world isn't it?”
“Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.”
“Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.”

Source : Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge
“A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.”

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