"I think we atheists should tolerate the religious not because their views are just as valid as ours, but because experience has shown that we are unlikely to convert them, and so we have to find some way to live in peace with them, even if we find their views false or otherwise objectionable."

-- Tim Crane

#Religious Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group
“¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!”
“I never pursued a career relentlessly”
“Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.”
“Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will â€“ that is all, really, education is about, should be about.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK
“I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.”
“Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.”
“Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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