I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.
A person who is guided by God will never be misguided. . .
Our silence is our real propaganda.
We are not hostile to the United States. We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is simply that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them.
When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.
We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements. ' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can. ' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.
What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.