"I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose."

-- Neil Abramson

#Believe Quotes #Loss Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

Source : Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions
“When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.”
“You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.”
“I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.”
“Design adds value faster than it adds cost.”
“I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.”
“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.”

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