"I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did."

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John Kennedy Toole

#Christian Quotes #Religious Quotes #Book Quotes

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
“My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.”
“We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.”
“The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss”
“I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,”

Source : "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”
“When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, 'Boy, that must have been really hard,'...that was probably hard. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you're never going to know which is which until you actually go out and do it.”
“Architecture is an expression of values.”

Source : Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. October 16, 2014.

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