#eve

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conquering #endured #energy #every #fund

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#connect #exists #hunger #level #new

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#bad #bad man #believe #believed #best

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#everything #happy #inside #outside #something

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growing up #irish #learn #made #now

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#certain #deliberation #dot #end #go

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#anyone #blood #bombing #desperate #even

There is a point at which even justice does injury. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #injury #justice #point #which

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love #may #mercy #might #minds

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different. ↗

— Jack White

#change #different #entire #everyone #girl