Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) Quotes
The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
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God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.
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I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
