"Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?"

-- Gregory of Nazianzus

#Faith Quotes #Stars Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.”
“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”
“In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.”
“One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.”
“Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.”

Source : "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.
“On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates”
“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.119, Pushkin Press

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