#eli

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty #become #exposes #face #features

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling. ↗

— Peter Banks

#comfortable #comfortably #familiar #feeling #like

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #before #climbing #ever #fed

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued. ↗

— William Banting

#am #believing #demonstrate #further #gradual

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#most #needed #provided #real #real world

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#beforehand #believe #catholic #committed #died

I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#al pacino #always #am #believe #call

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#comfortable #energy #english-speaking #expressing #feeling

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#al pacino #always #believe #god #i