Sara Maitland Quotes

• It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

  Sara Maitland

  Common Humanity, Collaboration, Share

  Sara Maitland (2014). “A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search For A Joyful Theology”, p.179, Henry Holt and Company

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• We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

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  Unique, Thinking, Special

  Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

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  Creativity, Garden, Silence

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Otra de las cosas que empecé a hacer durante este tiempo fue lo que los budistas suelen llamar "meditación" o, en términos cristianos, "oración contemplativa". Empezó a desbancar a la deipnosofía como mi afición favorita.

  Sara Maitland

  Christian, Buddhist, Prayer

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• 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.”

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  Lonely, Morning, Selfish

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• Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
  Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
  Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
  Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
  All four of them believed in God.

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  Believe, Four, Extinction

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• Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

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  Important, Identity, Well Being

  Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

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  Father, Cocky, Independent

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• Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

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  Firsts, Jelly, Needs

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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.

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  People, Heaven, Greek

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• Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

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  Art, Ideas, Form

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• Art is an artificial organization of experience.

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  Art, Organization, Art Is

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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.

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  Philosophy, Wrestling, Issues

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• [Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Perfect

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