„If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.“

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— Thomas von Kempen, buch Nachfolge Christi

Quelle: The Imitation of Christ

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Augustinermönch und Mystiker 1380 - 1471

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„To be simple is to accept the essence of the message and not try to twist it or adapt it to our own ideas. To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image! Simplicity is dying to self, an emptying.“

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— Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985

"For This I Have Laid Down My Life", p. 12
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

„[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.“

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— Francisco Varela Chilean biologist 1946 - 2001

Quelle: The Embodied Mind (1991), p. 142

„God's forgiveness is unconditional. There is no condition whatsoever in man which would make him worthy of forgiveness. If forgiveness were conditional, conditioned by man, no one could be accepted and no one could accept himself. We know that this is our situation, but we loathe to face it.“

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— Paul Tillich German-American theologian and philosopher 1886 - 1965

Chap. 1: "To Whom Much is Forgiven..."
The New Being (1955)

„Our own opinions. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.“

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

(de) Eigene Meinungen. Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 571
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

„Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?“

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— Ursula K. Le Guin, buch Lavinia

Quelle: Lavinia (2008), p. 66

„We are all guilty,” he said. “We are all innocent. Only when we accept responsibility for our own actions do we become free. And only when every one of us accepts their share of responsibility will the world become safe for us all.“

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— Michael Moorcock English writer, editor, critic 1939

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 422)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)

„In this time of uncertainty, when all our old social forms are crumbling, when we cannot easily find our way, we can be lights to each other.“

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— Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008

Quelle: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing, p. 403

„When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.“

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— Eugene H. Peterson American translator 1932 - 2018

„Only a merciful Church shines! Were we to forget, even only for a moment, that mercy is ‘what pleases God most,’ all our efforts would be in vain, for we would become slaves of our institutions and our structures, however renewed they might be. We would always be slaves.“

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— Pope Francis 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936

2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most

„Don't try to get even, don't waste a lot of time trying to get even with each other. Because you never really do. Our ancestors thought if they ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, that they would be like God. The truth was, not only did they not find out good from evil, but they also were unable to know God after that. Not only were they unable to know God, they were unable to know each other. Not only were they unable to know each other, they were unable to know themselves. And that is our, that is our heritage, folks.“

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— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997

Upland, Indiana http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/upland-indiana-sep2196.html (September 21, 1996)
In Concert

„The saints that be in Heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to shew them: and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord: and thus ought we to will, like to them. Then shall we nothing will nor desire but the will of our Lord, as they do: for we are all one in God’s seeing.“

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— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 30

„As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.“

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— Megan McCafferty American novelist 1973

Fourth Comings

„Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?“

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— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Tiere essen

Quelle: Eating Animals

„Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)“

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— Victoria Moran American writer 1950

Quelle: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

„Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.“

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— Jack McDevitt American novelist, Short story writer 1935

Quelle: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 41 (p. 404)

„And if the immortality of the soul had been unable to find vindication in rational empiricism, neither is it satisfied with pantheism. To say that everything is God, and that when we die, we return to God, or more accurately, continue in Him, avails our longing nothing; for if this indeed be so, then we were in God before we were born, and if we die we return to where we were before being born, then the human soul, the individual consciousness, is perishable. And since we know very well that God, the personal and conscious God of Christian monotheism, is simply the provider, and above all the guarantor, of our immortality, pantheism is said, and rightly said to be merely atheism disguised; and in my opinion, undisguised.“

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— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

„If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.“

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— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946

„Every good cause gained a victory when the Union troops were triumphant. Our final victory was the triumph of religion, of virtue, of knowledge…. During those four years, whatever our motives, whatever our lives, we were fighting on God’s side. We were doing His work. What would this country have been if we had failed?“

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— Rutherford B. Hayes American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881) 1822 - 1893

Diary (27 October 1883)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

„Oftentimes when our falling and our wretchedness is shewed us, we are so sore adread, and so greatly ashamed of our self, that scarcely we find where we may hold us. But then willeth not our courteous Mother that we flee away, for Him were nothing lother.“

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— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

Summations, Chapter 61

„We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.“

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— Brandon Mull American fiction writer 1974

Quelle: Chasing the Prophecy

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