#ip

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. ↗

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. ↗

— Tertullian

#discipline #doctrine #faith #index #judge

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. ↗

— John Tesh

#different #i #idea #music #performance

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#always #any #back #chest #collapsed

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #go #me #people #places

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#casts #companion #never #shade #you

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#anderson #cooper #families #friend #great

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#get #grandmother #how #i #identify