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Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband. ↗

— Debi Pearl

#men

Every society has the criminals it deserves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#salvation #men

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

Tyler said to Chloe: There are many things that men don't do any more that they should. Particularly for women. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#chloe #tyler #men

Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten. They will achieve Elysium, I am sure." She glared pointedly at Hades. He shrugged. "Probably." Artemis glared at him some more. Okay," Hades grumbled. "I'll streamline their application process. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hades #thalia-grace #grace

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible. ↗

— Mark

#christianity #religion #men

Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#men

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#because #buy #confidence #directors #i

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#rejected #should #simply #thought #too