„In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.“
Orson Welles6
amerykański reżyser, producent, scenarzysta i aktor filmowy 1915 - 1985Podobne cytaty
„You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan“
— Rick Riordan, książka The Battle of the Labyrinth
Źródło: The Battle of the Labyrinth
„The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.“
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 301]
„Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.“
— Christina Dodd American writer 1957
Źródło: Scent of Darkness
„Secularism, with its moral relativism, is in direct opposition to Christianity and its absolute morality. The battle is between these two worldviews—one that stands on God's Word and one that accepts man's opinions.“
— Ken Ham Australian young Earth creationist 1951
Carol Derby & Ken Ham, "The 'Evolutionizing' of a Culture", War of the World Views: Powerful Answers For An "Evolutionized" Culture (2006), p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=RTc_lsnp0r0C&pg=PA11
„Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities.“
— Walt Disney American film producer and businessman 1901 - 1966
Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)
Kontekst: Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a plea for special favors nor as a quick palliation for wrongs knowingly committed. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
„Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.“
— Richard Garnett British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet 1835 - 1906
De Flagello myrteo. xiii.
„To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.“
— Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778
Prier Dieu c'est se flatter qu'avec des paroles on changera toute la nature.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
Citas
„Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. But thank God it's a lot safer now.“
— Murray Walker Motorsport commentator and journalist 1923
The Gold Coast Bulletin staff (October 26, 2002) "Weekender", The Gold Coast Bulletin, p. W09.
Interviews
„Homosexuality is thus very clearly presented as that sexual practice which culminates apostasy in hostility towards God, it is war against God. It is a denial of Gods natural order and law in the ultimate form.“
— Rousas John Rushdoony American theologian 1916 - 2001
Audio lectures, Homosexuality (n. d.)
„God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious…“
— Regina Spektor American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980
"Laughing With"
Far (2009)
Kontekst: No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad news, sir."
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire or flood But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious...
„Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.“
— Léon Bloy French writer, poet and essayist 1846 - 1917
Pope Francis quotes Bloy in his first homily as Pope. Pope Francis: 1st homily. Missa pro Ecclesiae in the Sistine Chapel http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-1st-homily-full-text
„If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.“
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 68]
„The same church must, in my opinion, also respect that the one whose name is absent from the same declaration out of embarrassment, although he and he alone led Muslims to pray to this one God, so that once again through him, Muhammad, the prophet, this God "has spoken to mankind."“
— Hans Küng Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author 1928
World Religions 129
„Only the prayer which one prays as the observance of a Mitzvah is religiously significant. The spontaneous prayer ("when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before God") a man prays of his own accord is, of course, halakhically permissible, but, like the performance of any act which has not been prescribed, its religious value is limited. As a religious act it is even faulty, since he who prays to satisfy his needs sets himself up as an end, as though God were a means for promotion of his welfare.“
— Yeshayahu Leibowitz israeli intellectual 1903 - 1994
"Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State" (1995)
„Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
St. 6.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
„When the soul has arrived at this state all the acts of its spiritual and sensual nature, whether active or passive, and of whatever kind they may be, always occasion an increase of love and delight in God: even the act of prayer and communion with God, which was once carried on by reflections and divers other methods, is now wholly an act of love. So much so is this the case that the soul may always say, whether occupied with temporal or spiritual things, "My sole occupation is love."“
— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591
Happy life! happy state! and happy the soul which has attained to it!
Explanation of Stanza 28 part 8
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
„I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.“
— Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943