"I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church."

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Stanley Hauerwas

#Catholic Quotes #Church Quotes #Sensibility Quotes

“Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.”
“This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.”

Source : Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press
“There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.”
“The reason people lose their healing is because they begin questioning if God really did it.”

Source : "Dateline NBC", December 27, 2002.
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.”

Source : James Monroe (2006). “The Papers of James Monroe: Selected correspondence and papers, 1776-1794”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.”
“Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.”

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