"In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well."

-- Richard Rohr

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“In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.”
“People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.”
“Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. â€˜Thereâ€™ was then; â€˜hereâ€™ is now.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.138, Macmillan
“In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
“You donâ€™t drive races on paper.”
“â€¦the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.”
“One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.”
“Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.”

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