"The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient."

-- Brennan Manning

#Jesus Quotes #Matter Quotes #Prayerful Quotes

“You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.”
“In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.”
“I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.”
“We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.”
“You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want”
“The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.”
“If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.”
“Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?”

Source : "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

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