“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk,
"Always love me in a mature manner, I'll always love you in a mature manner."
- anonymous
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blueveinedthrobber
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Sat 1 Mar, 2014 07:03 am
“Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.” -Pope Francis
“Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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vonny
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Sat 1 Mar, 2014 10:46 am
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde
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vonny
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Sat 1 Mar, 2014 10:48 am
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
- Seneca
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JTT
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Sat 1 Mar, 2014 12:14 pm
@blueveinedthrobber,
Bear quote: The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God.
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