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“When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.”
― John Chrysostom

“The merciful man is as a harbour to those who are in need; and the harbour receives all who are escaping shipwreck, and frees them from danger, whether they be evil or good; whatsoever kind of men they be that are in peril, it receives them into its shelter. You also, when you see a man suffering shipwreck on land through poverty, do not sit in judgment on him, nor require explanations, but relieve his distress.”
― John Chrysostom, Saint John Chrysostom Collection

“What do you think you are doing by infesting the whole world? Because I do it with one puny boat, I am called a pirate; because you do it with a great fleet, you are called an emperor.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“The Library of Congress archives memes now, preserving things like the Lolcat Bible, Urban Dictionary, and Know Your Meme. It calls them, charmingly and also not entirely inaccurately, “folklore.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language