"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

-- Simone Weil

#Prayer Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.”
“Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.”
“Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”
“Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.”
“Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.”
“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”

Source : Quoted in Forbes, 8 June 1981
“I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.”

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