#being

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

#altar #being #current #did #felt

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#being #benefit #capacity #everyone #father

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. ↗

— Tina Turner

#being #black #had #harmony #i

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. ↗

— Scott Turow

#inventor #legal #me #people #talk

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#been #being #doing #enough #i

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#before #being #binds #body #bondage