"The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate."

-- Christian Smith

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“Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.”
“Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.”
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
“the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.”
“I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
“This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.”

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