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By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture. ↗

— Walter Martin

#religion

No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf. ↗

— Mark McGinty

#historical-fiction #the-cigar-maker #ybor-city #death

The blind lead the blind; we will come to sea. ↗

— Sumanth Bharadwaj

#humor #life #love #philosophy #science

An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving. ↗

— David Levithan

#relationships #romantic

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#culture #education #ethics #inspiration #meditation

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#susan-elizabeth-phillips #romantic

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? ↗

— Nora Roberts

#ghost #girl #romantic #white #romantic

…[I]t is my view that the story of Modernism must be written as a story of contradictions, for Modernism is in itself, on its most fundamental level, deeply contradictory. Every attempt to present it as simple, homo-genous and unified is to fabricate a lie. ↗

— Jeff Werner

#modernism #sweden #art

Kau yakin kau sudah mengecek rias wajahmu? Matamu kelihatan seperti mata panda. ↗

— Francisca Todi

#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic #romantic-comedy

They say you never forget your first glimpse of Gehenna. Over the tall buildings the sky swirls with orange and red, true titian, a feature of the unique atmosphere. Of course that same air would kill human beings; hence they built the entire city inside a dome. Eternal sunset, that’s why the place is so wild. You know the feeling you get, just before full dark? Sundown makes you feel like the world burgeons with possibility, and that’s Gehenna for you. Like any other romantic notion, it’s based on bullshit, of course. Gehenna isn’t the land of eternal sunset and infinite potential. The gas in the atmosphere just makes it impossible to see the sun. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#tourist-brochures #romantic