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.

Eugen Drewermann

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• Human being
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• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Question
  • Human
  • Human being

• I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Halloween

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• A human being is a deciding being.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Genes

• 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.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus
  • Spring
  • Easter

• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • People
  • Song
  • Easter

• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Encounter
  • Defeats

• Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • Wish
  • Powerful
  • Easter

• To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Space
  • Rain
  • Chocolate

• 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.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fear

• Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Important
  • Easter

• Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • City
  • Eternity
  • Jerusalem

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Eye

• 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.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Easter

• And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Long
  • Together
  • Soul

• I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Numbers
  • Sounds
  • I Don't Know

• Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

  

  David Poole
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Sports

• Sun, silence, and happiness.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Happiness
  • Silence
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Eugen Drewermann
  • Eternity
  • Human being
  • Easter