Eugen Drewermann Quotes
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!
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If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.
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The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability.
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Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
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Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
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In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.
