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The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable- -it is smouched [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.
- Mark Twain
The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.
- Mark Vonnegut
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.
- AW Pink
This intelligent life need not be anything like humans. Little green men would do as well. In fact, they might do rather better. The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.
- Stephen Hawking
God Never Compares You To Anyone Else. He Loves You As You Are.
- Bo Sanchez
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.
- St Bonaventure
Men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.
- Eric Metaxas
The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards.
- Eric Metaxas
Religion to other religions. Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.
- Eric Metaxas
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong