Basil Pennington Quotes

We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

Basil Pennington

• Intimacy
• Possession
• Son Of God
• Trinity

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• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Laugh
  • Intimacy

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Work
  • House
  • Beautiful

• To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Color
  • Intimacy

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • World
  • Alone
  • Communication

• Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Funny
  • Attention
  • Intimacy

• The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • True
  • Dying
  • Intimacy

• I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

  

  Armand Assante
  • People
  • Great
  • Intimacy

• Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Small

• Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This makes collaborative problem solving in individual teams more straightforward.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Trust
  • Intimacy

• In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Power

• It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Intimacy

• Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Alone

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

  

  Confucius
  • Fighting
  • Sex
  • Possession

• You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Risk
  • Parody
  • Innovating

• If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cannot

• I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Moral

• We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Intimacy
  • Possession
  • Son Of God