"The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind."

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Source : Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.12, Paraclete Press

Peter Rollins

#Reality Quotes #Idols Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.”
“We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.”
“The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't!”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Socks may eat wherever they want to.”
“After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. May 29, 2003.
“Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.”
“My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.”

Source : Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
“When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there.”

Source : "Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn see dead people - they're everywhere" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. September 18, 2014.

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