"My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers."

-- Frank Moore Cross

#Prayer Quotes #Father Quotes #Reading Quotes

“A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.”
“Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.”
“Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.”
“All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.”

Source : Source: londoncalling.com
“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.”
“The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.”
“Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.”

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