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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfd00db | If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| 080b98c | Sister Fidelma raised an eyebrow. 'The beggar seems to be one of our countrymen, Mother Abbess,' she said. The Abbess Etain moved forward to join her. 'A beggar. They suffer greatly from the arrogance of a crowd.' 'But listen to what he says.' The two women strained to catch the rasping tones of the beggar. The voice was raised loudly. 'I tell you, tomorrow the sun shall be blotted from the heavens and when that time comes there shall be bl.. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| cbe6305 | Beliefs are things to be cherished but we cannot be intolerant of others whose beliefs we disagree with. That intolerance can lead to war and even murder. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| 9b4106d | For those who are sceptical about such events as the wives of clerics and other religious being sold into slavery with the sanction of Rome, I have to point out the following: during the time of Pope Leo IX (1049-54), the pontiff did sanction the rounding up of the wives of priests to become slaves in the Lateran Palace. Moreover, it was when Urban II (1088-99) was elected to the papacy that he reinforced celibacy not only by decree but als.. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| 99342b5 | I have need of a knife to cut our brother down,' she explained. 'We must pray for his soul and accord him a Christian burial.' The others cast uneasy glances at each other. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| ffb3583 | Half-a-dozen men had emerged on foot from the woods on the far side of the road. They were led by a man mounted on a horse - a burly man with long unkempt hair curling from underneath a polished bronze helmet and merging into a great bushy black beard. He wore a burnished breastplate and carried himself with some authority. His companions, clustered behind him, carried an assortment of weaponry, mostly staffs and bows with arrows strung but.. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| 0fba9f7 | Is not a book of more value than metal?' asked Cumscrad. 'It is the fruit of a person's brain and contains knowledge and ideas; it has power greater than gold because knowledge and ideas can change people. | Peter Tremayne | ||
| ccee79c | When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to ackn.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 4953623 | Daily practice with images both written and drawn is rare once we have lost our baby teething begin to think of ourselves as good at some things and bad at other things. It is not that this isn't true, but the side-effects are profound once we abandon a certain activity like drawing because we are bad at it. A certain state of mind- (what McGilchrist might call "attention") is also lost. A certain capacity of the mind is shuttered, and for .. | Lynda Barry | ||
| cfb0c29 | I always start my class with a coloring assignment using crayons to color three pages from a variety of coloring pages pinned to the wall. Pick 3. Color them densely, trying to get as much of the crayon on the paper as possible. Students find it frustrating because crayons are surprisingly hard to work with, but they usually have some fun doing it. Until...when the finished pages were pinned to the wall, all of the pages were colored just t.. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 1255a30 | Non-photo blue pencils... After about a week of using them the class is smitten. It looks like thinking, this color of blue. Like words before you say them. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 9a0b01f | There's the drawing you are trying to make and the drawing that s actually being made- and you can't see it until you forget what you were trying to do. | Lynda Barry | ||
| ebd9b9b | In a classroom of students with varying levels of drawing experience, this way of drawing brings us to a common starting place that is like the starting place we all share: our first drawings of people made when we were little. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 82c882f | Lynda's mother] You're stupid and you don't know it, you're problem. You talk, talk, talk, all the time. No one wants to listen to an idiot. [Young Lynda] Uh. OK. Thanks, Mom. | mothers-and-daughters stupidity | Lynda Barry | |
| 00dbe70 | Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool! Take me on! Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants! You think I'm playin'? | Lynda Barry | ||
| b84859b | I am someone who can look at certain things without flinching. Certain dead people. Particular dead people. But I cannot look at the creatures. | Lynda Barry | ||
| c0a3604 | Some nights looking at him scares me so bad I can hardly move and I start doing a prayer for protection. But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to? | Lynda Barry | ||
| efa6bfd | I believe they [images] are the soul's immune system.... | Lynda Barry | ||
| 789feeb | In the days of Rohbeson's Slaughterhouse, flies were everywhere, crawling up the walls like living designs. I used to fall asleep looking at them. Thinking about their world. Their society. Did they have kings? Did they steal from each other? My light fixture was black-full with bodies of them. I used to think they had feelings about certain people. People who noticed them. Certain people. Me. | Lynda Barry | ||
| bf19495 | if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. Jealousy | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0d2d3de | What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? | Authors | ||
| 4164f28 | Polite?" I said, less than radiant with joy. She smiled. "I don't mean it that way," she said. "Not being polite. Respectful polite. You give people their space. I really like that. It's unusual" | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7226b51 | So must the writer, whose productions shouldTake with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. | Authors | ||
| dbd0d36 | Smooth verse, inspired by no unlettered Muse. | Authors | ||
| 9a4097e | Hopefully on my tombstone they will write, 'We don't need no stinkin' neurodiversity'. | Autism | ||
| 07a162e | When parents say, | Autism | ||
| 58bbb2b | They stood and pulled off their robes, facing each other, and underneath both were wearing jeans and sweaters, there being a nip in the air tonight, and his sweater was brown and loose and hers was beige and clung to her torso like a soft second skin. He attempted chivalrously not to take in the sweep of her body, his eyes holding hers, but of course, as we know often happens in such circumstances, he was unsure as to whether or not he had .. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| fdaa0fb | You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept's ceiling. 'I'll find him and then I'll gralloch the bastard.' Thomas did not know what gralloch meant, but decided the word was bad news for de Taillebourg. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 3c74fdb | Massive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism | Autism | ||
| 00fd8f7 | since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book | Jim Trelease | ||
| 63a248b | The scandal motif in Christ's lineage was no accident. In His incarnation, Christ willingly "made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant". He became an outcast and a public disgrace, being made a curse on our behalf. He remains even now a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. The gospel message, too, is public scandal--mere foolishness and shame as far as those who perish are concerned. But to those who are saved, it.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 54e748a | When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I? | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 365e4b6 | New doesn't always look perfect. Like the Easter story itself, new is often messy. New looks like recovering alcoholics. New looks like reconciliation between family members who don't actually deserve it. New looks like every time I manage to admit I was wrong and every time I manage to not mention when I'm right. New looks like every fresh start and every act of forgiveness and every moment of letting go of what we thought we couldn't live.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 2dd95bb | In the Jesus business, community is always a part of healing. Even though community is never perfect. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 53b2d18 | hoping perhaps that their virtues -- their ability to have faith in God in the face of an oppressive empire or a failing crop or the blight of cancer -- might become our own virtue, our own strength. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f4aee7f | There's a popular misconception that religion, Christianity specifically, is about knowing the difference between good and evil so that we can choose the good. But being good has never set me free the way truth has. Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing t.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 7ca655a | Her relationship to God wasn't doctrinal. It was functional. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 9b7bc7b | Maybe the Sermon on the Mount is all about Jesus's lavish blessing of the people around him on that hillside, blessing all the accidental saints in this world, especially those who that world -- like ours -- didn't seem to have much time for: people in pain, people who work for peace instead of profit, people who exercise mercy instead of vengeance. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 5c5d749 | And the strangeness of the good news is that, like those in Matthew 25 who sat before the throne and said Huh? When did we ever feed you, Lord?, we never know when we experience Jesus in all of this. All that we have is a promise, a promise that our needs are holy to God. A promise that Jesus is present in the meeting of needs and that his kingdom is here. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| c69d4d4 | Chloe kept drawing and hiding and peeking out to look at my tattoos again. "Did those hurt?" she asked, which was right around the time I noticed the shiny thin lines on her arms. I thought to myself." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 59ed044 | I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 16d5372 | The week that the gospel text was that awesomely weird story of Jesus casting a legion of demons out of a naked dude and into a herd of pigs, pigs who then threw themselves over a cliff and drowned in a lake? My pastor friend Heather posted the following question on my Facebook wall: | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| cf282b2 | What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God's ability to work through sinners. | lutheran | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 0968472 | As I wrote in I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally. | Nadia Bolz-Weber |