"All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake."

-- John Shelby Spong

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“It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.”
“no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death”

Source : D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press
“I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.”
“It's important to have a life outside the band.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.”
“I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.”
“We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.”

Source : Geoffrey Wolff (2013). “A Day at the Beach: Recollections”, p.7, Vintage
“We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death”

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