"Trust but check. Check on those we trust."

-- Tom Rob Smith

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

Source : Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation
“Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!”
“I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.”
“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.”

Source : Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press
“But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?”
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”

Source : L'Officiel magazine, Summer 1980.
“What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?”
“If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.”

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