"This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously."

-- Stephen L. Carter

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“In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.”
“When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.”
“Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mary Boleyn". "The Other Boleyn Girl", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.”
“You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.”
“We can change the world one laugh at a time.”
“Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?”
“A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.”

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