"Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen."

-- Stanley Hauerwas

#Empowering Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Creation Quotes

“I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work.”
“I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips”
“Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?”
“I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.”

Source : "I'll say what I want to say". Interview with Ginny Dougeray, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 1999.
“I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.”
“I love to cook and entertain.”
“I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.”

Source : "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
“Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.”

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