"But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today."

-- Carson McCullers

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“Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
“And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.”
“I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”
“If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?”
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up”
“He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.”
“Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.”

Source : Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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