"Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all."

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Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press

Mary Daly

#Faith Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Godly Quotes

“Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.”
“Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.”
“No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.”
“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”
“I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.”
“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.”
“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

Source : Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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