“Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.” BookIdeasFactsHomeWaterDoorsHolyBlessingCrossesIncludingDefenseBarsSellingVampireUselessBotherStakesHoly Water Book:Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.” WorldWellsMayMeanFactsFallViewsMoralDoubtMaterialsBlessingPoint Of ViewContributionChipsObjectivityDoubting Everything Author:Aldo Leopold
“Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.” NeedsFactsSpiritKeysHolyBlessingWake UpHoly Spirit Author:Jim Cymbala
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.” DoeFactsAsksPossibilityBirthFitBlessingPaidProductionsGoods Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.” MenFactsNationsCausesEnjoyLibertyProgressHabitBlessingConsequenceFellowsObstaclesMelancholyThrowingUnjustFellow ManUngrateful Author:James F. Cooper