"To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Spiritual Quotes #Violence Quotes #Injustice Quotes

“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
“Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.”
“I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.”
“Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.”

Source : Saint Bonaventure, Aeterna Press (1881). “The Life of Christ”, p.99, Aeterna Press
“My mind is always racing.”
“Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?”
“I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.”
“I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.”

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