#mit

I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mitch-albom #faith

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#forward #means #move #must #participation

I am offering you a real commitment— a place in my life forever. Even if our relationship ended, our tie to each other never would. Let me make you a vampire, Leila, and watch decades slide by like days while you’re by my side. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#love #life

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#distinction #love

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it. ↗

— Kanye West

#first #i #just #self-conscious

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#companionship #love #love

Katniss, when you are in the arena,you just remember who the true enemy is ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#draw #grows #inclination #limit #look

It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#god #happiness #marriage #mitch-albom #religion

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#clark #hate #i #jazz #like