Michael Dowd Quotes

#1. God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

Michael Dowd

#2. Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Michael Dowd

#3. When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

Keith Richards

#4. What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation ... if we're not updating what we mean by God ... what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.

Michael Dowd

#5. It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

J Mascis

#6. Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

Michael Dowd

#8. Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.

Arianna Huffington

#9. We have nothing to lose in this life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

Michael Dowd

#11. Suffering does not discriminate.

Shania Twain

#12. Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the science. It is the artificial limitations that hamper us - and, through us, you.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

Adam Schlesinger

#14. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

#15. Facts are God's native tongue.

Michael Dowd

#16. No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?

Michael Dowd

#17. The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Alice Rivlin

#18. This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

Jane Pauley

#19. The Bible says, "How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). In other words, we can't have any effect in the devil's territory unless we first bind him and forbid him any authority there.

Stormie O'martian

#20. I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

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