"Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present"

-- Eric Butterworth

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“The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.”
“Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”
“You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.”
“Three hot chicks for three hot chicks." "THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!”
“We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.”
“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.”
“I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.”
“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”

Source : Jeffrey Archer (2012). “The New Collected Short Stories”, p.374, Pan Macmillan

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