Colin Gunton quotes

“Everything important seems already to have happened.”
-- Colin Gunton

#Important Quotes

“From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.”
-- Colin Gunton

#Given Quotes #God Image Quotes

“In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.”
-- Colin Gunton

#Lying Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Desire Quotes

“To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.”
-- Colin Gunton

#Play Quotes #Differences Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“The search is more important than the destination”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”

“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”