#ible

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. ↗

— Anonymous

#courage #enemy #lesson #life #love

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time. ↗

— Anonymous

#inspirational #proverbs- #death

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch- #faith

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do. ↗

— Anonymous

#god #inspirational #religion #inspirational

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? ↗

— Mark Twain

#food

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#falling #falling in love #gravitation #people #responsible

Finally brothers and sisters; whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. ↗

— Anonymous

#philippians- #love

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ↗

— Anonymous

#bible #gentile #god #gospel #jew

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#insoluble #insoluble problems #philosophy #problems #unintelligible