Sara Maitland quotes

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone.”. (Sara Maitland)
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him. View quote
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Art is an artificial organization of experience. View quote
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Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all that seems to happen regardless of the paradigm and the high thoughts of philosophy. It has always happened. It is precisely because it has always happened that we go on wrestling with these issues in the hope that it can happen more often and for more people. View quote
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It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other. View quote
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Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity. View quote
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We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone. View quote
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Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. View quote
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Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are. View quote
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Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. View quote
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