"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."

-- Samuel Butler

#Christian Quotes #People Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it.”
“Empathy grows as we learn.”
“If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's an Ideas section or personal essay series or longform. Readers are hungry for it. It's like prestige TV, though; it's execution-dependent. You have to figure out the right advertiser or sponsor, and you have to deliver, you can't just feed the beast.”
“The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'”

Source : Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.
“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.442, Lion Fiction
“Television is ***** amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.”
“The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.”
“If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'”

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