"Im not trying to do conceptual art."

-- Peter Sotos

#Art Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being Godâ€™s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.”

Source : Brian D. McLaren (2012). “The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons
“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”
“A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”
“God is not afraid of new things.”
“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”
“How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?”
“Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.”

Source : Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

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