"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."

-- Mary Douglas

#Religious Quotes #People Quotes #Competition Quotes

“There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.”
“I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.”

Source : Billy Graham (2010). “WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
“Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.”
“I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.”
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)”
“I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having - for some reason, I'm the one who makes the coffee, and my dad was always that guy. It's kind of shocking how closely I compare to my dad.”

Source : "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.
“Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.”
“Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.”

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