"God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will he is united to God. At the same time, in His goodness he is merciful to the sinner and by chastising him in this life brings him back to the path of virtue. Similarly, a man of good and dispassionate judgment also loves all men equally. He loves the virtuous man because of his nature and the probity of his intention; and he loves the sinner, too, because of his nature and because in his compassion he pities him for foolishly stumbling in darkness."

-- Maximus the Confessor

#Men Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”
“As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.”
“Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'”
“There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.”

Source : Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.60, Crown
“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.”
“Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.”
“At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.”

Source : "Andrew Rannells: Gay And Serious In 'New Normal'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 10, 2012.
“We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,

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