#si

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#background #christianity #christians #emerged #faith

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#self-is-an-illusion #the-voice-of-god #beauty

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#going #good #good movie #i #job

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese. ↗

— Andy Lau

#example #for example #similar

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing. ↗

— Andy Lau

#easier #experience #more #next #next time

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business. ↗

— Andy Lau

#feel #get #like #out #you

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think. ↗

— Jude Law

#consider #fashion #great #i #may

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#airbus #berlin #fly #now #seats

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#between #brain #chocolate #discovered #other

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ago #any #as far as #come #concrete