"In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe."

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Source : "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann". Book by Matthias Beier, 2004.

Eugen Drewermann

#Space Quotes #Air Quotes #Judging Quotes

“The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.”
“We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.”
“No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.”
“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”

Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.26, Psychology Press
“Real strength isnâ€™t control. Itâ€™s knowing when to let go.”
“If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.”
“You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.”
“You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.”

Source : "George Foreman: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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