#nit

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#best #given #i #make #me

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend. ↗

— Aacharya Shri Mahashraman

#friends #friendship #initmacy #jainism #life

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #inspirational

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#christianity #church #intelligence #intelligence

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#loneliness #solitude #intelligence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#love #imagination

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#intellect #intelligence #intelligence

It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.) ↗

— Robin McKinley

#intelligence

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. ↗

— Louis Zukofsky

#infinity #intelligence #math #mathematics #mind