"So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes #Calling Quotes

“What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.”
“We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.”
“The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.”
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.”
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press
“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
“There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.”
“I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.”

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