"We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight."

-- Lane Kirkland

#Struggle Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Long Quotes

“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”

Source : "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.
“I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.”
“Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.”
“I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.”
“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.”

Source : Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.
“You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.”
“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”
“As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations. We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them" (no. 37). As for the former statement, we should only be afraid if the church is smaller because of our failure to welcome people and preach the Gospel in a way that touches their hearts.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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