"The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known."

-- John Stuart Mill

#Agnostic Quotes #Duty Quotes #Dissent Quotes

“The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.”
“Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.”
“I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.”
“Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.”
“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”
“The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.”
“Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.”

Source : "Johnny Isakson Says Sequestration Not A Concern In Georgia, But Constituents Disagree" by Amanda Terkel, Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
“Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.”

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