"After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.""

-- Sarah Vowell

#Atheist Quotes #House Quotes #Church Quotes

“Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.”
“For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing tic-tac-notecard, trying to get the stories in an order whereby stories that are similar in any given way (diction, narrative stance, setting, plot) are separated by others that aren't.”
“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”

Source : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 5), 1975.
“Mistakes are good provided you learn from them, and correct them promptly.”
“I am proud to kill in the name of God.”
“We will have no jobs if we have no planet.”

Source : "Humanity at a Crossroads: Fighting for Climate Justice" by Jayaseelan Naidoo, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2013.
“Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.”

Source : Solomon Schechter (1908). “Inaugural Address of Solomon Schechter as President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Delivered November 20, 1902”
“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”

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