"O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return"

-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.”
“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.”
“Youâ€™re not terrified of me. Youâ€™re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I canâ€™t say I blame you. People who love me usually end up dead. But you see, Iâ€™m not going to give you any choice. You belong to me now whether you like it or not.â€ â€œI donâ€™t like it, not one bit!â€ â€œTry to escape,â€ he suggested coolly. â€œGo ahead. See what happens. Give me one excuse to take what I want from you, even if it is against your will. I want you that much. Too damned much.â€ He turned without warning and kissed her, flattening her back against the pine mast.”
“You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.”
“Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.”
“...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.”
“When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.”
“A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.”

Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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