George Pattison Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.

  George Pattison

  Past, Ideas, Long

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

• In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

  George Pattison

  Philosophical, Persistence, Past

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.

  George Pattison

  Teacher, Real, Past

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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