#nit

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#being #how #i #i remember #infinite

Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#truth #inspirational

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#clergy #conversion #inspirational #inspirational

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. ↗

— Primo Levi

#inspirational

I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall; I only know God still is God And watches over all. ↗

— John Gilbert

#inspirational #inspirational

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man? ↗

— William Styron

#evil #god #humanity #man #understanding

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #life

The stars up there at night are closer than you think. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#distance #existence #infinity #inspiration #space

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#humanity #inspiration #survival #inspirational

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #because #bring #down #give