"To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality."

-- Paul Shepard

#Spiritual Quotes #Reality Quotes #Leader Quotes

“In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.”
“There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.”
“In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
“The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.”
“Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.”

Source : Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.23, Random House
“It may sound clichÃ©, but it really was an honor to be nominated. As an actor, nothing is guaranteed.”
“It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.”

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