"When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears."

-- John Haynes Holmes

#Flower Quotes #Race Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.”
“Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.”
“The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.”
“Life grows lovely where you are.”

Source : Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.95, The Floating Press
“For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it's the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage or any other thing - are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues? Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don't think so.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.”
“Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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