"Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness."

-- Jane Frances de Chantal

#Pain Quotes #Simple Quotes #Self Quotes

“We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.”
“Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.”
“You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.”

Source : "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" by Steven Merritt Miner, (p. 109), 2003.
“There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it's the pure satisfaction of doing what you really want. I always had a problem doing things that I didn't want to do. I don't have a problem when my director says: "Don't do it like this; I want it like this." But generally in life, I like to do what I want, and for me the best way is through acting and making films.”

Source : Source: www.popmatters.com
“Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.”
“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2014). “Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.”
“Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.”

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