#red

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#could #cry #gang #him #hired

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#harbour #into #painting #sacred #voyage

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#act #better #hundred #obedience #one act

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#how #i #i am #i do #incredibly

Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#american #american people #being #countries #dozen

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#concerning #covered #gets #goes #lot

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

#heroes #made #mistakes #ones #recovered