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Barry Mann
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When you’re surrounded by desert, it’s inconceivable to think there are places that flood.
“Babies are such blank slates. They don’t come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don’t like.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the Apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, ‘Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.’ But Peter said to him, ‘May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!”
― Conclave
― Conclave
“Winners never talk about glorious victories. That’s because they’re the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It’s only the losers who have glorious victories.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“He told them that going willingly to their deaths in Christ’s name was a sure path to salvation. Of course, it was one thing for Bernard to write this, theorizing a thousand miles from the Holy Land and glorifying in a martyrdom he would never himself experience. It was quite another for a band of ninety Templars, called from their castle and told to attack against impossible odds, to swallow down their fear and do it. Yet they did.”
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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