#ali

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#rosalie #twilight

Without awareness, we are not truly alive. ↗

— James F.T. Bugental

#self-awareness #self-awareness

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street. ↗

— Susan Ee

#environmentalism #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ↗

— David Brower

#environmentalism #legacy #environmentalism

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #protestantism #sacraments

On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#french #spirituality #catholicism

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #crazy #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #ontological-oxymoron #ontology

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christianity #eternal-father #god #god-father #spirituality

When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #apocalypse