#kindle

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#life

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God. ↗

— Henry B. Eyring

#faith

And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. (Ether 12:4–6.) ↗

— Henry B. Eyring

#faith

The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ. ↗

— Walter Wink

#faith

Getekend is een duizelingwekkend mooi familie-epos dat een halve eeuw bestrijkt. ↗

— Judy Lohman

#family

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3 ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning. ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience. Man therefore projects his desire into infinity and feels pleasure only when he is able to imagine that this pleasure has no end. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#experience

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one. ↗

— Helen Smith

#intelligence