#amen

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#another #believe #clear #common #common faith

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#doctrine #hierarchy #his #holy #holy spirit

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#amendment #called #fifth #private #private property

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#doing #else #even #everything #fundamentals

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.' ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#courts #doing #establish #ethic #god

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#band #big #did #drums #get

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#apt #man #marriage #single #sufficient

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#decipher #long #new #new testament #norm

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#extremist #fundamentalist #i #just #parody