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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .


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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.



Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.



Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.



Not to decide is to decide.

Not to decide is to decide.



The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.



God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.



Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.



The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.



The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.



There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.





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