#eli

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#absolutely #anybody #anything #bad #be true

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#any #capable #demonstrative #durable #feeling

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. ↗

— Ernst Bloch

#christianity #fundementalism #marx #religion #age

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#catholic #free #free will #gave #give

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her. ↗

— Barbara Eden

#compared #elizabeth #good #good company #her

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#consequences #daring #evidence #faith #regardless

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. ↗

— John Edward

#feeling #frame #hearing #i #i see