Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.
– Sarah Ruhl
Related Quotes:
- If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained. – Dada Bhagwan
- Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible. – Billy Graham
- Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing. – Sarah Ruhl
- Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace? – Sarah Ruhl
- I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences. – Sarah Ruhl
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- more guilt, guilt, guilt. That’s the Irish condition. – Adrian McKinty
- The line between sacred and secular is man-made. – Sarah Bessey
- You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
- Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth – at least the metaphysical. – Fakeer Ishavardas
- Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. – Lawrence M Krauss
- Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. – Ayn Rand
- The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. – WAR Gibb
- What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) – Stephen Batchelor
- You’re going to have to do better than that if you want to get into my metaphysical pants. – Allison Pang
- A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity. – Raymond M Smullyan
- I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It’s what I have been elected by God to do. – Clive Barker
- What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe. – Patricia S Churchland
- [He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed. – Robert Silverberg
- I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity. – James Hauenstein
- Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World. – Vineet Raj Kapoor
- Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. – Veronica Roth
- Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you. – Bryant McGill
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn’t add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- There is a good guilt and a bad guilt… the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God. – Chuck Bridges
- Got something to do with guilt,’ Toro said. ‘Her mother,neh?’ ‘Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. – Kiana Davenport
- This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. – Atul Gawande
- Only afterward did the guilt set in–the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. – Tiffany Reisz
- The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. – Michael J Findley
- Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love. – Ren Girard
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. – Madeleine LEngle
- When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer. – Brian Spellman
- Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice. – Abhijit Naskar
- The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, -œArmageddon. – Billy Graham
- Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. – Stefan Molyneux
- A democracy is not truly democratic unless it’s secular. – Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used. – Newton G Kibiringi
- Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans. – Dennis Prager