"God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity."

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Francis Spufford

#Generosity Quotes #Want Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.”
“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
“If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.”
“I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.”
“There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park.”
“Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'”

Source : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone
“The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.”
“The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.”

Source : Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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