"God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness."

-- David Bentley Hart

#Distance Quotes #Desire Quotes #Delight Quotes

“You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.”
“When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.”
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
“It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.”
“The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree.”

Source : Speech at the Senate on Erosion of Freedom of Speech, sencanada.ca. March 30, 2010.
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?”

Source : Telegram sent to the Warden of New College, Oxford, on hearing of Kruscher's derogatory remarks on his 'Lazarus' in the College chapel

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