"Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?"

-- Phil Donahue

#Religious Quotes #Cousin Quotes #Moving Quotes

“You have the ability, now apply yourself.”
“Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.”
“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.”
“Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria
“Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.”
“One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.”
“To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.”
“It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.

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