There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. —Blaise Pascal”
― The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
― The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.”
― Night Road
― Night Road
“Woman is too volatile and spiritual a being to be kept down by mere brute force,” she wrote. “You can cage a bird and thus keep her down on a level with her serpent-mate, but just give her the use of her powers, its freedom, and she will rise.”
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
“The point isn’t whether or not Trump is specifically interested in hurting me or any other journalist. It’s that his comments put us in danger.”
― Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
― Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
“sometimes the dust of our memories is best left unswept.”
― Rock Paper Scissors
― Rock Paper Scissors
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