"If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry."

-- Martin Luther

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“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.”
“My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.”
“As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities...”
“A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.”

Source : Frank O'Connor (2014). “Collected Stories”, p.196, Open Road Media
“I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.”
“The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.”
“I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.”
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Franti and Spearhead from Sep 01, 2013

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