#iced

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away. ↗

— George A. Smith

#far #gives #god #himself #infallible

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. ↗

— Huston Smith

#could #done #each #eight #faith

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. ↗

— Kate Smith

#dying #i #last #many #myself

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#been #begin #casualty #first #lie

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#believed #boy #certainly #could #ever

Hypothetically speaking let's say you were dreaming, what would happen next? ↗

— Monique Snyman

#fantasy #romance #werewolves #dreams

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#mother #sacrificed #uniformly #wife #woman

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗