#is

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. ↗

— Glen Cook

#humor #life #humor

EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY ↗

— T.H. White

#government #humor #totalitarianism #humor

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#christian-living #doubt #faith #god #suffering

When God made man she was practicing. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#humor #humor

I commend my soul to any god that can find it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#moist-von-lipwig #humor

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. ↗

— John Piper

#religion #age

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#colour #exposure #isolation #jargon #life

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure) ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kimono #novelists #shigure #writers #humor

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#humor #naughty #sex #virginity #humor

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction. ↗

— Rowena Cherry

#fantasy #futuristic #humor #humour #rhett