"The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway."

-- Rod Rosenbladt

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“A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
“There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.”
“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
“They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.”
“A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.”
“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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