"I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest."

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Source : "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

Jens Spahn

#Home Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Mind Quotes

“So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.
“Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.”
“As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.”
“I never had a long-term plan.”
“I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.”
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.”
“The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment Â– one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.”

Source : Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Binder Schmidt (1994). “As It Is”, p.82, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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