Quotes of: Roman-catholic Keyword

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

Will Gluck

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

Wong Kar-wai

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

Wong Kar-wai

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Walter Lang

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

Walter Lang

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Walter Lang

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson Mizner

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Ziad Doueiri

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

Zack Snyder

Make no mistake, Elphaba, Goddess Magick was potent in the old days. During the Dark Ages the Catholic Church had their hands full fighting it. Unfortunately, in large measure the Church won that war, relegating Wicca, Druidism and the rest to the fr...

The Goodwill Grimoire

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images to...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but al...

In the Shadow of the Cross

For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, onc...

The Spies of Warsaw

My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find the work. They didn’t fit in Wales. Nor in the U.K., either. They didn’t fit with each other all that well, for that matter. They fought ever...

Omicron

So what, simply put, is the Third Covenant? It is the recalibration, the reawakening of that which is truly human, truly holy. It is truly catholic, kata-holos (Greek “according to the whole”), truly universal, sacred, and unitive. It is made man...

The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the Work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance

Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table. Green city gardens are scattered throughout...

Tasting & Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Roadtrip

The different religions confused me. Which was the right one? I tried to figure it out but had no success. It worried me. The different Gods - Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Mohammedan - seemed very particular in the way in which they expected me to k...

Richard Erdoes

And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions ag...

One Foot in the Grave

The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you. You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child. If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be t...

Catherine de Hueck Doherty