#led

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#fail #failed #go #gusto #i

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ever #feeling #had #handled #i

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. ↗

— William Ames

#believed #called #everyone #god #heard

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

#church #continual #direction #god #means

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#complicity #destruction #liberty #much #phenomenon

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

The only substance properly so called is the soul. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #properly #soul #substance

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. ↗