"My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together."

-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

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“I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.”

Source : "Pirates of the Caribbean star Ian McShane: 'Wandering in swamps could've been tough.. but if you're standing next to Penelope Cruz, it's not that difficult'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2011.
“I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.”

Source : "Here’s The Most Remarkable Thing About The Universe, According To Bill Nye". Interview With Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.”
“There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.”
“Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'”
“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”
“I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.”
“If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?”

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