"Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!"

-- Oswald J. Smith

#Jesus Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Soul Quotes

“You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.”
“The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
“We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.”

Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.
“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?”
“You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.”

Source : "Cristina: A Diet for High Energy". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. February 19, 1997.
“We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.”
“Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.”
“Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!”

Source : "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

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