Eugen Drewermann Quotes
Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.
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Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.
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Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.
