#mon

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#pity #possess #religion #religion

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college. ↗

— Adam Ant

#college #i #ill #just #left

Religion has always persecuted science. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion-philosophy #religion

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Desmond Seward

#german #history #knights #monk #war

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pain #pointless #sacrifice #space #sacrifice

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#ask #bit #came #did #even

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