"Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up"

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Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.127, Wings Press

John Howard Griffin

#Errors Quotes #Scripture Quotes #Fool Quotes

“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words”
“An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.”
“Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.”
“I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.”
“The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next”
“Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the sameâ€”" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to think you are not right in the upper storey. I knew you wanted me. The only thing I've never doubted was that. But getting you into bedâ€” you, the greatest whoremonger in Christendomâ€” gad, it was worse than the time I had to drag Bertie to the tooth-drawer. And if you think I mean to be doing that the rest of our days, you had better think again. The next time, my lord, you will do the seducingâ€” or there won't be any, I vow.”
“I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love.”
“I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.”

Source : "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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