"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."

-- Lionel Blue

#Religious Quotes #Taken Quotes #Ghetto Quotes

“Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.”
“It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being sentenced to death......It is no answer to say that we are doing the best that we can. If this is the best our state can do, we have no business sending people to their deaths.”
“By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.”
“I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.”
“Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.”
“There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.”
“I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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