Kay Coles James Quotes

For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.

Kay Coles James

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• I'm so secluded. Very alone.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Alone
  • Very
  • Secluded

• My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Christian
  • Brand
  • Shoe

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Alone

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Alone
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Mad

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Christian

• If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Myself
  • Christian
  • Something

• I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness
  • Back

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dark

• I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • Necks

• In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Faith

• When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Awareness

• I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Work
  • Done
  • Player

• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Life

• For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.

  

  Kay Coles James
  • Alone
  • Christian
  • Religious