#san

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ↗

— Charles Atlas

#days #face #i #kicked #muscles

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it. ↗

— John Avlon

#ever #important #media #more #parties

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game. ↗

— John Avlon

#country #game #good #into #majority

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#because #college #college students #day #days

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#creatures #enlightenment #into #leads #mankind

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. ↗

— Eric Bana

#build #mean #out #sand #speaking

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#armed #buildings #enemy #exist #flag

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage