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“Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.”

Whole Religion Creation Bones Footprint Tyrannosaurus Rex

Author:Robert Breault

“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”

Men Writing Country Whole Feelings Order Literature Existence Generations Tradition Historical Bones Simultaneous Individual Talent

Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

“Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.”

Whole Body Left Essentials Skins Bones Emptiness Hollow Detachment Numbness Skin And Bones

Author:Tracy Chapman

“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.”

Mind Littles Important Whole Body Asks Practice Alive Skins Bones Awakening Questioning Mind And Body Marrow

Author:Martine Batchelor

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”

“Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.”