"A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel."

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Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

Ibn Warraq

#Spiritual Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.”
“When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.”
“I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.”
“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.”
“When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.”
“I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.”
“Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.”
“It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

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