"The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ."

-- David Bentley Hart

#Lying Quotes #Humility Quotes #Order Quotes

“Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.”
“Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.”
“Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.”
“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.”
“At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.”
“To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.”

Source : Song: I'm Coming Home

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