Culmination Quotes - Page 5

• I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Men, Years

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• Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Exercise, Sheep

  Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.

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• When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

  Peter Høeg

  Sex, Thinking, Intimacy

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.450, Macmillan

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• And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

  Robert Reich

  America, Government, House

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