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What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's…

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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny…
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the…
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and…
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to… — William J. H. Boetcker
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to… — Wayne Dyer
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. — Saint Augustine
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may… — Samuel Gompers
I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole… — Neale Donald Walsch
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — Saint Augustine
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right. — William J. H. Boetcker
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten… — A B Simpson
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith

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