"I never, even for a moment, doubted what theyâ€™d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubtâ€™s complete absence. They have forgotten."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Parent Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.”
“Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!”
“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ***** and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.”
“I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.”
“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. Itâ€™s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people wonâ€™t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf
“We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.”
“Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.”
“I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.”

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