#ark

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace. ↗

— Bree Despain

#grace #mercy #pastor-divine #the-dark-divine #forgiveness

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it. ↗

— Bree Despain

#forgiveness #pastor-divine #forgiveness

We are required to forgive everyone. ↗

— Bree Despain

#the-dark-divine #forgiveness

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#flips #imprisoned #living #most #something

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see. ↗

— Jack Lemon

#being #best #brother #closest #closest friend

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. ↗

— David Graeber

#economics #libertarianism #markets #politics #freedom

He couldn’t say it. He couldn’t tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If she had feigned her feelings for him – if he’d bought into her lies and her quest for freedom…. He wasn’t sure what he would do. He could hurt her." Caleb. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#freedom

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#darkness-at-noon #liberty #politics #soviet-union #freedom

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals! ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#knowledge #philosophy #politics #socialism #freedom

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#fallacy #free-market #freedom-to-contract #just-price #freedom