"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."

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Source : Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

Philip Schaff

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“I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! Iâ€™m 24 now, so I guess Iâ€™ve been very, very lucky that it doesnâ€™t show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guessâ€¦”
“Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.”

Source : "The Subtlety of Emotions". Book by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (p. 445), 2001.
“Everyone has class, one class or another.”
“Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
“Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.”
“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.”
“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin
“Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.”

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