#blood

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#blood #god #impending #jesus #john

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#i #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. ↗

— David Lynch

#absurdity #after #because #becomes #bloody

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#accepted #any #authentic #become #between

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ↗

— Franco Nero

#blood #bread #crazy #drinking #eating

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. ↗

— Joe Orton

#humble #meek

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on! ↗

— Beah Richards

#come #competition #losing #race #races

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good. ↗

— K.J. Wignall

#blood #helplessness #vampires #anger

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak. ↗