“My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.” MotherFatherChristVirtueViolenceSpokesFeminineComplaintsChildlike Author:Saint Augustine
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.” KnowsMenWorldKindFeelingsLightChristianFormLyingInterestChristHalfAttitudePrinciplesWorstStupidPrejudicePreparedJewEducatedGreekSpokesOur WorldUsualTailsCoatsInabilityFind MeSupposingSupposing ThatIrreligion Author:George Eliot
“Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.” PeopleIfsWantSaidGodJesusChristJesus ChristGood ThingsChristmasSpokes Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.” WantFeelsHeartWholeHateOrderPassionChristAliveImpossibleSourceHatredMiseryBetrayalWhole LifeSpokesJustifiedAdulteryLove SomeoneAbnormalFriend Betrayal Book:The Prague Cemetery Source: The Prague Cemetery