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There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no placess that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it! Corrie Ten Boom
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping or in the keeping of her God the sacred rights of man. They intended that all should have the right to worship or not to worship that our laws should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to... Robert Green Ingersoll
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them. Dorothy Day
Abraham Joshua Heschel quote: "The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that..."
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. Abraham Joshua Heschel
A sprinkling of diners saying, 'We eat, but not amid normal surroundings. We are emancipated from normal sourroundings. It is extremely important that we eat off little red circular tables instead of big brown square tables in order to conform with our mission, which is that of non-conformity. Ben Hecht
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic. J. K. Rowling
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate. Clive Barker
the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition. Barack Obama
Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that men make for themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a lie between us and our fellows; and pity, and prudence, and terror are cunning lies. And now my happiness is to be one more lying delusion; I am expected to delude myself, to be willing to give gold coin for silver to the end. If you can so easily dispense with my visits; if you confess me neither as... Honore de Balzac
Muriel Rukeyser quote: "In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems...."
In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world. Paul Wellstone
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. Kurt Vonnegut
William Butler Yeats quote: "Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a..."
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. William Butler Yeats
Charles Spurgeon quote: "All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no..."
All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no injury if there were no corruption in our own natures. Charles Spurgeon
That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as that, in the end, they are all one, and can only be overcome in one way. What you most need is to feel... Dag Hammarskjold

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