#eh

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change. ↗

— David Gemmell

#humanity #change

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives

Kids: they dance before they learn “there is anything that isn’t music. ” —William Stafford ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#music

the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provided with government housing. The face of our Creator can’t be seen on a welfare voucher. What the poor need is not another government program; what they need is for Christians like me to honor our savior. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#christian-behavior #christianity #poverty #art

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#nature

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#period #real #real work #rehearsal #work

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#behavior #bible #civilization #describes #god

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#politics #religion #virtue #religion

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. ↗

— Charles F. Stanley

#belief #god #relationship #religion #religion