"Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God."

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Source : In Izaak Walton 'Sir Henry Wotton', in Christopher Wordsworth 'Ecclesiastical Biography' (1810) vol. 5, p. 44; first published in Walton's first edition of 'Reliquiae Wottonianae' (1651)

Henry Wotton

#Thinking Quotes #Church Quotes

“Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.”
“Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.”
“There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.”
“It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.”
“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.”

Source : Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”
“The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.”
“I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.”

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