"A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences."

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Source : George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

George Weigel

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“Malice is only another name for mediocrity.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
“Mom's eyes blazed. "Are you sleeping with her?" Oh, god. Did we have to do this here? Now? "Well, actually," I smirked, "we don't get a lot of sleep.”
“The public is a part of my real life.”
“We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.”

Source : "A new mass extinction could be underway, researchers say" by Angad Singh, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2015.
“The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.”

Source : Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)
“â€¦ that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each otherâ€™s company again.”
“We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.”
“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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