#thou

A law is not a law without coercion behind it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#coercion #law #without

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#cross #doubt #interpretation #new #new testament

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#daytime #deal #dialogue #did #discover

An actor works with their soul and their thought. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#soul #their #thought #works

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#honesty is #man #rare #self-pity #without

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#by the people #constitutional #creation #defined #families

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ↗

— Saint Bernard

#cannot #comprehend #faith #grasp #hold

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage