"The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature."

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Source : Joseph E. B. Lumbard (2009). “Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam”, Fons Vitae

Joseph E. B. Lumbard

#Needs Quotes #Redemption Quotes #Fallen Quotes

“Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.”

Source : "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.
“The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.”
“You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.337, Courier Corporation
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
“If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.”
“Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.”
“If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.”
“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”

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