"The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us."

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Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

Ursula Goodenough

#Religious Quotes #Joy Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
“When you hear the words â€˜gay lifestyleâ€™ and â€˜gay agendaâ€™ in the future, [look] to your left, look to your right. That person next to you is a brother, is a sister. And they should be treated with love and respect.”
“I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.â€ Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.[pp.28]”
“Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.”
“If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.”
“As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.”
“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”
“When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.”

Source : Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin

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