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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39bad8f | Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn't changed that. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7d64a52 | No one had said anything, or even lifted an eyebrow at me; sometimes it's just the inside of your own head that is the problem. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 65e12d2 | Luke 12:48 says, "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." And I have been given so much." | Katie J. Davis | ||
| 2300b37 | I have a confession," he said softly. "Oh no," I sighed. "It's not about the gloves is it?" "No," he grinned, and gave me a quick peck on the lips. "I've seriously been crushing on you for about three years." "Really?" I was genuinely surprised. His asking me out a few times never equated to a crush to me. I knew he probably liked me a little, but I didn't think he had a crush on me. "Okay, maybe more than crushing. I'm pretty sure I've had.. | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| ad7ac79 | It really isn't hard to write a book that prohibits sexual slavery--you just put in a few lines like "Don't take sex slaves!" and "When you fight a war and take prisoners, as you inevitably will, don't rape any of them!" And yet God couldn't seem to manage it." -- | Sam Harris | ||
| c031bda | The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy. Because each new generation of children is taught that religious propositions need not be justified in the way that all others must, civilization is still being besieged by the armies of the preposterous. We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically.. | religious-faith | Sam Harris | |
| 953b474 | Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door to more sophisticated approaches to spirituality, ethics, and the building of strong communities. Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy. | Sam Harris | ||
| 52e150b | Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except on matters of faith. His beliefs about geography, astronomy, and medicine would embarrass even a child, but he would know more or less everything there is to know about God. | Sam Harris | ||
| ab1786c | the Vatican is an organization that excommunicates women for attempting to become priests13 but does not excommunicate male priests for raping children.14 It excommunicates doctors who perform abortions to save a mother's life--even if the mother is a nine-year-old girl raped by her stepfather and pregnant with twins15--but it did not excommunicate a single member of the Third Reich for committing genocide. | Sam Harris | ||
| 26af213 | One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are not--that is, when they have nothing to do with suffering or its alleviation. Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral--that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unneces.. | god morality religion | Sam Harris | |
| 774967f | There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell.... | Sam Harris | ||
| f76dcb3 | Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity -- a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible. | Sam Harris | ||
| ba2ecb7 | While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its problems. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous. | Sam Harris | ||
| fc83254 | The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present. | Sam Harris | ||
| 8fdeb1d | I'm not denying the importance of achieving one's goals, maintaining one's health, or keeping one's children clothed and fed--but most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. | Sam Harris | ||
| e316d32 | It is always now. | Sam Harris | ||
| 1dfb2e3 | Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed. | lying truthfulness | Sam Harris | |
| 05a67fe | Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness.... We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value. | Sam Harris | ||
| eb019e9 | Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. | Sam Harris | ||
| 8e7cac9 | This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call 'spiritual.' No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty.. | love mystery reason religion spirituality | Sam Harris | |
| 2def284 | Adieu, soleil ! s'ecria-t-il. Disparais, astre radieux ! Couche-toi sous cette mer libre, et laisse une nuit de six mois etendre ses ombres sur mon nouveau domaine ! | Jules Verne | ||
| 383dbc8 | Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face, possibly in these same primeval forests. That we are here today evidences their victory. What they did may we not do? And even better, for are we not armed with ages of superior knowledge, and have we not the means of protection, defense, and sustenance which science has given us, but of which they were totally ignorant? .. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e22ed13 | I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e5ed8af | my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 7920d3e | And could she love where she feared? | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 8a769fd | I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1ac2a47 | It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them. | conditions unexpected | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| d8eda2b | Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 2e823ed | There is no substitute for an understanding mind. Satan can defeat the ignorant believer, but he cannot overcome the Christian who knows his Bible and understands the purposes of God. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 018d570 | Yield your heart and life to Jesus Christ. Be faithful to Him, no matter what men may do. The important thing is not the praise of men; it is the approval of God. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| b5dc71e | Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 4790062 | God doesn't promise to remove the stones from the path, but He does promise to make them stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks. He promises to help us climb higher because of the difficulties of life. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 2a5b682 | Sow a thought and you reap an action. Sow an action and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 91b914a | Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 10e0203 | BESIDES THE CONVERSATION of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit. But dreams also form a diadem of moons, therefore the sky is that splendour inside a man's head, if his head is not, in fact, his own unique sky. | José Saramago | ||
| 2a3b40e | Hythu tukrr lkidhb@ nafsh, f ttHwl l~ Hqyq@ ! | الكذب | José Saramago | |
| b2f1474 | Creo que no nos quedamos ciegos, creo que estamos ciegos, Ciegos que ven, Ciegos que, viendo, no ven | José Saramago | ||
| 47f32d8 | Quando montava o Salomao, a subhro sempre lhe havia parecido que o mundo era pequeno, mas hoje, no cais do porto de genova, alvo dos olhares de centenas de pessoas literalmente embevecidas pelo espectaculo que lhes estava sendo oferecido, quer com a sua propria pessoa quer com um animal em todos os aspectos tao desmedido que obedecia as suas ordens, fritz contemplava com uma especie de desdem a multidao, e, num insolito instante de lucidez .. | José Saramago | ||
| 0d3586f | no one could ever put a splint on a frog's leg | José Saramago | ||
| 7f274a5 | It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't, you weren't superfluous, there is no duplicate of you to come and replace you at your mother's side, you were unique, just as every ordinary person is unique, truly unique. | José Saramago | ||
| 1eee8c8 | You love me because you see me every day. You don't love me for who I am, you love me because of what I do or don't do. You don't know who I am. | José Saramago | ||
| e0a4eab | Estar de acordo nem sempre significa compartilhar uma razao, o mais costume e reunirem-se pessoas a sombra de uma opiniao como se ela fosse um guarda chuva | José Saramago | ||
| 2784007 | O otimo e inimigo do bom, mas tambem que o bom, por muito que se esforce, nunca chegara aos calcanhares do otimo. | José Saramago | ||
| 91cf724 | Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies. | José Saramago |