No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation – in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.
ROBERT GRAVESPrivacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
SZA -
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.
RICK WARREN -
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
BILLY WILDER -
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
ADYASHANTI -
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NIN -
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
BELL HOOKS -
After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
BOB LILLY -
Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them ‘dumb’!!!
ADELA POPESCU -
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
ADAM SMITH -
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
JACK MA -
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
JOHN COLTRANE -
A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.
DALAI LAMA -
It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
CHRIS ALLCHIN -
If you start sweet, then you’ve got somewhere to go.
BILL WITHERS -
If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I’d hate myself in the morning.
BARNEY FRANK