"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."

-- Muriel Spark

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“A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.”
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
“It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.”
“I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished”
“Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.”
“Just relax and breathe through your ass.”

Source : Lewis Black (2008). “Me of Little Faith”, p.38, Penguin
“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God , not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth , however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I ... what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue ; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.”

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