"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."

-- Terry Brooks

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“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.”
“The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.”
“The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (1930). “History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”, p.266, Library of Alexandria
“There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.”
“Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.”
“The essential thing â€˜in heaven and earthâ€™ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”
“But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.”

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