Bernard Lonergan Quotes
The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
