"Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near."

-- Thomas Yalden

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“So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.”

Source : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.107, SPCK
“The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?”
“Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.”
“...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...”
“Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 05, 2011
“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.”
“Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.”

Source : "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday (Really!)". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.”

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