"Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?"

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Diana Butler Bass

#Ignorance Quotes #Fire Quotes #Ice Quotes

“My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.346
“But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.”
“With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.”
“Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.”
“We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.”
“You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you wonâ€™t get there.”
“Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sexuality. And sometimes the differences are smaller. ... Where authors get into trouble is in trying to make those different characters stand in for whole groups of people, or for creating characters only to fetishize or explore their supposed otherness. Your character can be wildly different from you, as long as he's written with respect and, moreover, specificity.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.”

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