"The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice."

-- John Arbuthnot

#God Quotes #Faith Quotes #Hope Quotes

“It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.”

Source : Julie Smith (1996). “House of Blues”, Fawcett
“I would comment on the scene, but I've never kissed a woman so I don't really have anything to add...”
“I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.”
“People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.”
“Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.”
“The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.”
“Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.”
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.”

Source : "Evolution". Book edited by Mark Ridley, p. 389, 1997.

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