"Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence."

-- Karen Armstrong

#Religious Quotes #Practice Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.”
“I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.”
“I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.”
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
“What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.”
“I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.”
“The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'”
“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”

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