Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I already own more than any human being needs. ”

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else. ”

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. ”

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian. ”

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy. ”

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves. ”

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian. ”

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. ”

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. ”

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens. ”