There’s a kingdom of love waiting to be reclaimed

There’s a kingdom of love waiting to be reclaimed August 22, 2014

“Just follow the logic: if that first promise is conditional, then all the others are up for grabs too.”

Pietistic expectations with regard to worship are cruel. They put the burden on us, rather than inviting us to come and have our burdens relieved.”

“Perhaps we’re no closer to knowing if the truth really is out there, but we can be sure the lies are.”

“‘You can easily fit your whole arm up in there,’ says Mesnick. And she has.”

“During Napoleon’s time, villages were swept cleanly into one nation or another, the borders tidied up, but apparently — and no one can quite explain why — Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog escaped the broom.”

“Basically, nothing good came of the incident, because nothing good ever comes of acting like an asshole.”

“By liking everything, I turned Facebook into a place where there was nothing I liked.”

The Blair Church Project

“The gig economy is a crappy way to get good stories out of people.”

“So not only do you have nothing to fear from that grocery store rotisserie chicken, you could actually be doing a triple good deed by purchasing it — making your life easier, keeping prices down for your fellow shoppers, and helping the environment.”

“It racks in the tortures of aching hunger, and glows in bliss ineffable — bliss only you can give.”

“A large brawl involving approximately 50 representatives erupted on the House floor, ending only when a missed punch from Rep. Cadwallader Washburn of Wisconsin upended the hairpiece of Rep. William Barksdale of Mississippi.”

“That was really her being bad. She’s not a good babysitter.”

“The space, just big enough for a bunk bed, a mini-fridge and a few chairs, is slightly larger than the average American prison cell. It used to be Harrington’s office.”

They have earned the right not to be listened to.”

Years later, after I’d had my own child, and then my own post-partum depression, I finally asked my mother about the abortion comment. “

Fly, you fools!


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