"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Men Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“A pathfinder's job is hard enough â€” blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.”
“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”
“If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, itâ€™s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.”

Source : Dr. Gregory A. Boyd (2010). “Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity”, p.34, David C Cook
“One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.”
“The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.”
“Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.”
“Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us”
“I'm so fed up with being told that I'm a bad person because I don't subscribe to the same exact narrow views [Christians] have.”

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