"To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition."

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Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.139

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#Children Quotes #Different Quotes #Saint Quotes

“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”
“Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.”
“His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)”
“Critique by creating.”
“Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.”
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?”

Source : Source: atticusreview.org
“A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.”

Source : Beth Moore (2004). “Believing God”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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