Mamura Daiki Quotes & Sayings

Death is just the door through which we experience true Life. — Todd Stocker

There is no fire like lust, no evil like hatred. — Thich Nhat Hanh

As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it. — Donald Saunders

Better, my brethren, [to] wear out and die within three years than live forty in slothfulness. — Jason G. Duesing

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing. — Beth Moore

Concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out. — Huangbo Xiyun

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple. — Maureen Dowd

The first theological insight I learned from Gregory of Nyssa - and I suspect the last to which I shall cling when all others fall away - is that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo is not merely a cosmological or metaphysical claim, but also an eschatological claim about the world's relation to God, and hence a moral claim about the nature of God in himself. In the end of all things is their beginning, and only from the perspective of the end can one know what they are, why they have been made, and who the God is who has called them forth from nothingness.

(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17) — David Bentley Hart

The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up. — Derrek Lee