Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Bede Griffiths

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Bede Griffiths

This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

B. R. Ambedkar

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

B. R. Ambedkar

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Billy Corgan

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!