"What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans."

-- Timothy Radcliffe

#Teaching Quotes #Judgement Quotes #Church Quotes

“If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.”
“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.”
“Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.123, A&C Black
“I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.”
“Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.”
“How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying!”

Source : Thomas Campbell (1837). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.226
“The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.”
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”

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