#om

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult. ↗

— Michael Scott

#areas #back #cities #definitely #difficult

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #moments #age

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. ↗

— Ferdinand Magellan

#church #religion #faith

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#african-american women #american women #direction #even #faith

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breath #fresh #fresh air #home #like

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#before #better #eyes #forget #germany

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages. ↗

— Jon Secada

#both #community #done #grew #i

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#depths #essence #falls #fathom #inspiration

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#because #controversial #just #just because #make

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#first #front #glass #hand #how