#ender

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#leave #marriage #men-and-women #marriage

Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or competence, or he dominates someone or something in order to feel powerful. Men refuse to feel the paralyzing and humbling horror of uncertainty, a horror that could drive them to trust, a horror that could release in them the power to deeply give themselves in relationship. As a result, most men feel close to no one, especially not to God, and no one feels close to them. Something good in men is stopped and needs to get moving. When good movement stops, bad movement (retreat or domination) reliably develops. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#larrycrabb #men #silenceofadam #men

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist. ↗

— Sten Nadolny

#empathy #gender #men #mysogyny #prejudice

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him? ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #communion #doubt #faith #forgiveness

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#forgiveness #journey #life #world #forgiveness

By believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment. ↗

— Neil Strauss

#gender-stereotypes #love #men-and-women #power #relationships

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. ↗

— George Wald

#breakfast #buy #care #does #educations

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ↗

— Gary Becker

#because #efficient #fine #fines #imprisonment