Blase J. Cupich Quotes

We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.

Blase J. Cupich

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• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Fighting
  • Religious
  • Competition

• Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Country
  • War
  • Free

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Small
  • Community

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

  

  John Sweeney

• I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Work

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
  • Election

• Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

  

  Ajay Devgan
  • Time
  • Today
  • Society

• We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe