“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”
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“The message of the Gospels, he said, compelled Christians to show kindness and compassion to strangers, regardless of their religious faith or the color of their skin. Therefore, one could not possibly call oneself a Christian and behave with indifference toward the suffering of others.”
― An Inside Job
― An Inside Job
“Roundups and mass deportations, he declared, were not only inhumane, they were unchristian.”
― An Inside Job
― An Inside Job
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