#ah

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#politics #sarah-palin #united-states #experience

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #humanism #science #faith

My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat ... I AM A CHIHUAHUA!" -- Skippyjon Jones (In his very best Spanish accent) ↗

— Judy Schachner

#childrens-book #humor #siamese-cat #spanish #humor

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#torah #truth #faith

Have a little faith in my magic fingers ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #sarah-rees-brennan #faith

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect. ↗

— 'Abdu'l-Bahá

#inspirational #paris-talks #spirituality #faith

When nothing becomes the vocal Then nothing becomes the focal And nothing’s becoming at all ↗

— Kate Kaiser

#heart #kate-kaiser #kateofhoboken #katie-hahn #loss

لسوف أتريث قليلاً قبل أن ألعن يهوذا هذا. فالله وحده يعلم ماذا يكمن في أعماق قلوب السكارى. الأبله ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith #faith

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. ↗

— Bruce Feiler

#god #faith

You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

#faith