"Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption."

-- N. T. Wright

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“I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.”
“If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.”
“I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.”
“He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.”
“I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.”

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“Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.”
“Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.”
“While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.”

Source : "Carolyn Porco: Keeping an Eye in Saturn". Interview with Bjorn Carey, www.space.com. February 14, 2005.

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