"God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be."

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Robert Breault

#Hope Quotes #Might Quotes #Dawn Quotes

“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”
“In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, donâ€™t do that, or I believe, I donâ€™t believe.”

Source : "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.
“Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.”

Source : Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34
“To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.”
“Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”

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