John Luke Picard Quotes & Sayings

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. — Martha Cooley

Are you fighting the Black Thing?" Meg asked. "Oh, yes," Aunt Beast replied. "In doing that, we can never relax. We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of course we have help, and without help it would be much more difficult. — Madeleine L'Engle

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. — David Sarnoff

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river. — Eckhart Tolle

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. — Nick Cave