"We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life."

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Source : The Observer Review, 1995.

Basil Hume

#Society Quotes #Lost Quotes #Sacredness Quotes

“The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who enjoined the Apostles to 'go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.'”
“The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.”
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”
“The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.”
“Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!”
“Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.”
“Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.”
“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.”

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