...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.
Katherine PatersonTags: thought-provoking
He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'...
She couldn't say forgiveness, not to Liir. She started to say 'a soldier,' to make fun of his mooning affections over the guys in uniform. But realizing even as she said it that he would be hurt, she caught herself halfway, and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both.
She said, 'A soul-'
He blinked at her.
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But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.
Alyson NoelTags: thought-provoking
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Ann DruyanTags: science inspirational theology thought-provoking ann-druyan carl-sagan
If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
Andrew ThomsonTags: international-relations thought-provoking un peacekeeping
Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'
Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7
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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
Tom RobbinsTags: humor inspirational writing sleep thought-provoking
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
Tom RobbinsTags: life inspirational thought-provoking
All dreams continue in the beyond.
Tom RobbinsTags: dreams thought-provoking
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
Tom RobbinsTags: war violence thought-provoking
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