Rotraut Schrott Quotes & Sayings

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. — Frederic Bastiat

The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature. — Rosemary Radford Ruether

Damoclean, but these were people without pretense or affectation, — John Cheever

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align. — Terrence J

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other. — David Ehrenfeld

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is. — Michael Tilson Thomas

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture. — Mike Breen

Our role as parents is to increasingly motivate our children to act from within, not simply act correctly. — Mark Foreman

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love. — Mother Teresa