"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."

-- Thomas Aquinas

“We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.”
“Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.”
“A local company has more accountability.”
“When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.”
“A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.189, Serpent's Tail
“The average man is not hard to mystify.”
“The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.”
“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.”

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