#ding

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#torture #waterboarding #hypocrisy

Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#lesson #life #love #understanding #faith

…you don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously.” ---The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor ↗

— John Barth

#inspriational #faith

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#faith #giving #hoarding #money #sharing

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up. ↗

— Diane Schoemperlen

#faith

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. ↗

— Donalyn Miller

#reading #sharing-books #love

...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#liberalism #misunderstanding #niebuhr #self-deception #terrorism

We were learning what "living on faith" really means, and God was providing for us very much like he provided for the Israelites in the desert - just the basics, just enough, and just in time. ↗

— Shelley Hitz

#faith #providing #faith

The twelfth gift is Faith. May you believe ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#faith-blessing #inspiration #faith

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#reading #librarians