“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.”
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Sad Quotes — page 220 of 475
“Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.”
“If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?”
“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.”
“I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.”
“The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.”
“A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.”
“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”
“The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.”
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
“It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.”
“Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.”
“An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.”
“A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.”
“The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.”
“I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.”
“I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.”
“I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.”
“When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.”
“I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.”