Author: ppadmin

Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you make yourself more my servant. — Emperor Palpatine in the “Star Wars” movies

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends. — Anonymous Irish blessing

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

The strong do as they can, while the weak suffer what they must. — Thucydides

On the eve of our entry into World War I, William Jennings Bryan, President Woodrow Wilson's first secretary of state, described the United States as "the supreme moral factor in the world's progress and the accepted arbiter of the world's disputes." — Chalmers Johnson

If I adore You out of fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I adore You out of desire for paradise, lock me out of paradise. But if I adore You alone, do not deny to me Your eternal beauty. — Rabia al-Adawiyya, 8th century Sufi mystic

How does blood cleanse, if it is not a matter of revenge? “Washed in the blood of the Lamb” always seems a strange, powerful image to me. I was listening to an old folk spiritual recently, “Wayfaring Stranger,” and I wondered if the wildness and mystery of such traditional Christian images hasn’t gone underground. The song contains this verse: I want to wear a crown of glory When I get home to that good land. I want to shout salvation’s story In concert with the blood-washed band. Shouting salvation’s story has been in vogue lately as a way to secular power, but does our nation, led by a president who calls Jesus his favorite philosopher, still know the difference between a blood-washed and a blood-soaked band? Whatever kind of band we are, the blood has to be hidden. For at the very moment that our society has become more sophisticated at inflicting violence and at fictionalizing it for entertainment, real violence is less visible. — Dan Finlay

I will tell you something about stories they aren’t just entertainment they are all we have to fight off illness and death we don’t have anything if we don’t have the stories their evil is mighty, but it can’t stand up to our stories so they try to make us confused or forget them they would like that because then we would become defenseless. — Leslie Silko