"Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God."

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Source : "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

Jonathan Morris

#Motivation Quotes #Compassion Quotes #People Quotes

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
“I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.”
“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”
“Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.”
“With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.”
“I fear nothing for God is with me!”
“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.”

Source : Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press

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