"Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader."

-- Geoff Ryman

#Jesus Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Lying Quotes

“The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.”
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

Source : Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.
“All perfection is melancholy.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.3695, Delphi Classics
“The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”
“This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.”
“Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.”
“I am the skeptic of skeptics.”
“To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.”

Source : Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine (2000). “Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace”, p.76, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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