#kindlehighlight

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

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. ↗

— Charles Stross

#family

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life. ↗

— Jo-Ann Mapson

#life

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#love

I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the passive role. Waiting for Hunter and then settling for Joey. Waiting to feel more for Nate. Then waiting to feel less. Waiting for Alec to go away and leave me in peace. And now Dex. My number four. And I am still waiting. For all of this to blow over. For his September wedding. For someone who gives me that tingly feeling as I watch him sleeping in... ↗

— Emily Giffin

#men

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#love

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture. ↗

— Walter Martin

#religion

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole. ↗

— Tina Fey

#crazy

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure