Don Cupitt Quotes

#1. Capital T truth is dead.

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#2. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

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#3. You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.

Joseph Conrad

#4. It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#5. A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

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#6. The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.

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#7. To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

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#8. I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

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#9. Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

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#10. To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Christine Pelosi

#11. All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music ... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

Jay Kay

#12. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

William Shakespeare

#13. We argue that the role of teachers is becoming less that of a knowledge transmitter, and closer to that of an "animator of collective intelligence" who provides analytical tools (the proverbial "fishing rod") rather than simply giving away raw information ("fish").

Marcos C. Lima

#14. As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

Geoff Rickly

#15. In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

#16. Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

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#17. To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

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#18. Certain stories must remain mine, so that there is a me to remain.

Lauren Oliver

#19. He came for me again. He could barely move, but he dragged himself up and threw himself at an enraged demon for my sake. It was enough to make a girl cry.

Ilona Andrews

#20. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

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#21. The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

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