"Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents."

-- Alister E. McGrath

#Spiritual Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Example Quotes

“There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?”
“Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.”
“The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore acknowledges himself to be a zealous follower of truth, of happiness, of wisdom, of science, or even of faith, must of necessity make himself a lover of books.”
“How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.”
“Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.”
“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books
“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
“This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.”

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