"Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs."

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Source : "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason", billmoyers.com. June 30, 2006.

Colin McGinn

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“I love baseball, and the door remains open.”
“If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.”
“The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him.”

Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub
“I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad. Anything external will always live in that polarity - a combination of good and bad.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”
“Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.”
“As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.”
“What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? ... Tomorrow you could die ... but today you are precious and rare and awake ... Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.”

Source : "The Book of Awakening". Book by Mark Nepo, abcnews.go.com. 2000.

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