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People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet. ↗

— Brian Williams

#about #belongs #citizen #conversation #hands

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #life #thoughts #forgiveness

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #katherine-parr #forgiveness

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#festival #festivals #haven #i #life

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#having #interest #me #power #things

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cultures #darwinian #ever #every #flourished

To forgive does not mean to condone. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #forgiveness #art

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head. ↗

— Dar Williams

#head #justice #social #social justice #tied

You always have to wrestle with chaos. ↗

— Dar Williams

#chaos #wrestle #you