I will admit to ordsprog

en I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

en Overall, I have been pleased with my trip and I recognized far in advance that after 43 years of misunderstanding and animosity that one brief trip could not change basic relationships between people, ... But my hope is that in some small way, my visit might improve the situation in the future.

en Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover-up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting, you hadn't completely given up.

en [Socrates might respond this way: How does one rehabilitate a man who won't acknowledge having sinned?] How do you heal somebody who doesn't admit they want it? ... Even your basic 12-step programs say you have to admit what your behavior was.
  Ellen Goodman

en Christian faith is built on the words and teachings of Jesus Christ.

en The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope
  Samuel Johnson

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: / According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: / Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, / To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

en Whatever she is trying to say there, she didn't say it well, ... is worrisome because it might be a basic misunderstanding about the Voting Rights Act.

en I believe some of the trinkets and some of the things offered are either embarrassing or they're silly or they really miss the point, ... And the marketplace has to sort that out. I would hope there are enough common-sense donors out there that won't buy that kind of material or encourage it, but to the extent they do, it's the American way.

en The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
  Samuel Johnson

en What is that Word, by which the wandering mind can be restrained? What are those teachings, by which we may endure pain and pleasure alike?

en Through the Guru's Teachings, I enshrine the Lord within my mind. Pleasure and pain, and all emotional attachments are gone.

en The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox 'pilgrims' and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane - not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.

en The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense
  Henry Louis Mencken


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