"The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints."

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Source : Stanley Hauerwas (1995). “In Good Company: The Church as Polis”, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess

Stanley Hauerwas

#People Quotes #Unity Quotes #Church Quotes

“There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.”
“The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.”

Source : "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.
“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
“Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.”
“If you're dirty, what in this world isn't?!”
“Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”
“Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.”

Source : "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.

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