"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

-- Russell Banks

#New York Quotes #House Quotes #John Brown Quotes

“Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.”

Source : Carl Phillips (2014). “The Rest of Love: Poems”, p.40, Macmillan
“Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.”
“It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.”
“[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.133, Bantam
“I have eyes like those of a dead pig.”
“American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.”
“The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.”
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'”

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