#infant

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#infant #judaism #recovered #reformist #version

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#birth #catholicism #christianity #faith #god

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#combat #combat-infantry #marine #marine-corps #marines

I just took a little nap. I stole it from an infant.
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— Jarod Kintz

#baby #humor #infant #nap #sleep

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#crime #fear #graveyards #infanticide #murder

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#magic #magick #occult #satanism #nature

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#back #bad #bad guy #based #bed

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ↗

— Avicenna

#essence #every #find #form #infants

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#die #infant #little #natural #other

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #even #failed #full #giving