#is

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #come #forethought #free #grace

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#awake #beating #cover #each #fall

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#burning #causes #counseling #course #economics

Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#also #caught #doing #entertainment #guys

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. ↗

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#body #evil #food #forbidden #more

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ↗

— Pierre Berton

#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast