"The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!"

-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Essence Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.”
“People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.”
“Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.”
“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
“Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.”
“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.”
“I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater.”
“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.”

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