"It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work."

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Source : "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann (pp. 3-4), 1984.

Rudolf Bultmann

#Acceptance Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.”
“It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.”

Source : "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.
“I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.”
“I got rid of all those reporters.”
“Its always when you think that youve lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable When are you due?”
“If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”

Source : "The Book of This and That". Book by Robert Staughton Lynd, 1915.

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