Religion Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

14 Religion quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams merges ecology with faith in 14 succinct statements. Her voice, rooted in the land, gives a fresh angle on spirituality that resonates with anyone who feels a deep connection to the natural world.

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No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

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Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

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There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

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How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world…

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I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In…

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The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,…

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“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.”

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This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…

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But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached…

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I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical,…

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Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And…

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It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I…

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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

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I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

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“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…

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