"Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land."

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Source : Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

Carter Heyward

#Land Quotes #Belief Quotes #Process Quotes

“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”
“I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”
“Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.”

Source : 1676 Don Carlos, act 2.
“There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.”
“I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.”
“We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.”
“The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.”
“People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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