"Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us."

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Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing

Basil Hume

#Attitude Quotes #Consistency Quotes #Needs Quotes

“My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.”
“It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.”
“I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.
“When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.”
“I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.”
“I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.”

Source : "The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler". Book by William Marling, p. 279, 1998.
“No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.”
“Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat”

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