#demon

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#i #made #mistakes #my own #own

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs. ↗

— John Fogerty

#been #demons #i #know #proud

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

#despair #fears #fell #human #human soul

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. ↗

— Charles Manson

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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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