"Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth."

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Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org

Francis George

#Law Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.”
“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.”

Source : "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.
“They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.”
“A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.”
“A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.”

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