#real

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#beliefs #christianity #christians #evidence #him

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ↗

— Stella Blum

#claim #close #everybody #fashion #feelings

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. ↗

— Judy Blume

#books #censorship #due #fear #losers

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #back #box #cereal #child

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! ↗

— Judy Blume

#characters #coming #create #happen #i

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#belt #both #efforts #firmly #leads

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#realize #understand #virtue #you

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#burdensome #community #feels #flood #insurance

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. ↗

— Monica Keena

#always #bars #believes #carded #get