Revienta Toto Quotes & Sayings

How many times do we hear: 'Come on, you Christians, be a little bit more normal, like other people, be reasonable!' This is real snake charmer's talk: 'Come on, just be like this, okay? A little bit more normal, don't be so rigid ... ' But behind it is this: 'Don't come here with your stories, that God became man!' The Incarnation of the Word, that is the scandal behind all of this! We can do all the social work we want, and they will say: 'How great the Church is, it does such good social work. But if we say that we are doing it because those people are the flesh of Christ, then comes the scandal. And that is the truth, that is the revelation of Jesus: that presence of Jesus incarnate. — Pope Francis

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are. — Stephen Marche

If one day Balloon Dog's value bursts and shrivels in a Koons crash, we can only hope that Anonymous has an ongoing relationship with his orange pooch that can sustain the inevitable inflations and deflations of all speculative markets. In fact, a balloon serves as a nice metaphor for the lessons of history: you blow and you blow and you blow, and the thing gets larger and larger and larger still, and in your excitement you forget the laws of physics, and you begin to believe that your balloon is like no other balloon in the world - there is no limit to its size. And then, it pops. — Siri Hustvedt

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it. — Tommy Douglas

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. — Frederick Scott Oliver

Why don't I like you?"
"Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not. — Alan Rickman

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer. — Jill Lepore

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. — Epictetus

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself. — Catherine Ingram

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant? — Dr. Seuss

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ... — Amelia Barr