Scross Top Quotes & Sayings

Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that ... is just having fun. — Scott Clifton

Suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness — John Geddes

It seemed like folly to imagine that one could fill a house (or a tent) with relatives and still expect to have a pleasant vacation. — Emma Straub

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. — H.L. Mencken

He reacted like I slapped him, and I hated hurting him, but I knew he needed to know. "He doesn't deserve it. He can have any girl in the world's love, and he took yours. Someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling." He stood and started to walk away, but stopped and glanced back at me. "If you were mine, I would never let you go." He left the kitchen. — Abbi Glines

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald

Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us. — Pope Benedict XVI

Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. — J.K. Rowling

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth. — Wei Wu Wei