"Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to one another in the context of religious worship. As it is now our services are so antiseptic and sterile that people gathering for worship relate to others at only the most superficial level, and hardly ever get to know one another. . . . Maybe that is one of the reasons why people feel religion is irrelevant, because they cannot find support and solace during times of crisis and pain. That is when real religion should be at its best."

-- Joseph Girzone

#Dream Quotes #Religious Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.”
“For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary,”
“Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.”
“Information wants to be free.”
“Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.”

Source : Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.230, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.”
“I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard (1920). “A Short History of the American Labor Movement”

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