"The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation."

-- Karl Barth

#Christian Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.”
“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”
“Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.”

Source : Josephine Tey (1997). “Brat Farrar”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.”
“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”
“Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.”
“This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.”
“Love is the only duty that we know ...”

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