"The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true."

-- John Warwick Montgomery

#Religious Quotes #Mean Quotes #Belief Quotes

“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”
“I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.”
“Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that heâ€™s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.”
“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin
“The American empire should be destroyed.”

Source : "The Fourth Political Theory". Book by Aleksandr Dugin, 2009.
“I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.”
“For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.”
“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”

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