#mon

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#testimony #faith

Common sense ain't common. ↗

— Will Rogers

#common-sense

And now, I, Moroni would speaksomewhatconcerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye seenot, for ye recieve no witness until after the trial of your faith. For it was by Faith that Christ showed himself unto our fathers after he had risen from the dead; and he showed not himself unto them until after they had fiath in him; wherefore, it must needs be that some had faith in hime, for he showed himself not unto the world. ↗

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#lds #scripture #spiritual #faith

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#clear #i #money #one thing #thing

We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#jericho-barrons #karen-marie-moning

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) ↗

— Albert Einstein

#god #harmony

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery

Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#cliché #karen-marie-moning