"Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?"

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Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#Philosophical Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.”
“I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.”
“For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.”

Source : Jakob Böhme (1920). “The Confessions of Jacob Boehme”
“Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.”
“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
“It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.”

Source : Nathan Fillion @NathanFillion, twitter.com.
“Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.”
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”

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