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Hammett - The Dain Curse

Nelson Mandela

“Silence is not merely negative – a pause between words, a temporary cessation of speech – but, properly understood, it is highly positive: an attitude of attentive alertness, of vigilance, and above all of listening. The hesychast, the person who has attained hesychia, inner stillness or silence, is par excellence the one who listens. He listens to the voice of prayer in his own heart, and he understands that this voice is not his own but that of Another speaking within him.” — Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia, The Power of the Name

we must suppose ourselves to be in a perfect love with God - drunk with, drowned in, dissolved by, that delight which, far from remaing pent up within ourselves as incommunicable, hence hardly tolerable, bliss, flows out from us incessantly again in effortless and perfect expression, our joy no more separable from in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scotch [i.e.,Westminster Shorter] Catechism says that man's chief end is to "glorify God and enjoy him forever." But we shall then know that these are the same thing...In commanding us to glorify him, God is inviting us to enjoy him.
C.S. Lewis

On the quote above J.I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom explain:

"Here then we have the final answer to Lewis's own question: why does God so constantly and insistently require us to praise him? The answer is: So that we may get into the habit of doing what in heaven we will do spontaneously, and wholeheartedly in and from and for enjoyment of God. God's joy and our joy in praising will then coincide. Lewis knew that performing the duty of praise may for the moment bring us little or no delight, just as the five-finger exercises prescribed to budding pianists are ordinarily felt as a joyless bore. Nevertheless, he says "the duty exists for the delight...[W]e are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last the water comes, it may find them ready." And "there are happy moments, even now, when a trickle creeps along the dry beds, and happy the souls to whom this happens often." Indeed, the number of these praising psalms in which these trickles already find expression (trickles, by comparison with what awaits us, floods, in relation to where we are now) show that already in this life, heartfelt adoration will again and again bring heartfelt joy."

From Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

Robert Anton Wilson

Proverbs 16:25 is a familiar scripture: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." "Way" can be understood both as a narrow, single issue within one event or an entire package of values within a course of conduct. The proverb's point is that mankind is frequently driven by blind self-deception or ignorance. He often has no absolute certainty regarding right and wrong because his standards have been merely absorbed and never seriously compared against God's. How do ours compare?

Quote from John W. Ritenbaugh writing on The First Commandment

Read more: http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseact...#ixzz1oeXzoSIT

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I'm sorry if my atheism offends you. But guess what - your religious wars, jihads, crusades, inquisitions, censoring of free speech, brainwashing of children, murdering of albinos, forcing girls into underage marriages, female genital mutilation, stoning, pederasty, homophobia, and rejection of science and reason offends me.

-Mike Treder

Jesus spoke:

Jesus spoke:

And Jesus spoke;

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery. 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell."

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978

Gospel of Thomas

C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed

Yoda

Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain! - Kirk

A young boy given advice from his Sicilian uncle on an evil bully:

"Fear no bully, as the biggest bully will fall when hit from behind with a baseball bat."

From "American Born Sicilian: Mafia Wisdom"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwj5SixYZg

Trelane: Well, I don't know if I like your tone. It's most challenging. That's what you're doing, challenging me?

Spock: I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose.

Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997)

It's an interesting book, I recommend it.

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"Then too, the natives are mortally afraid of the numerous whippoorwills which grow vocal on warm nights. It is vowed that the birds are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the body, they instantly flutter away chittering in daemoniac laughter; but if they fail, they subside gradually into a disappointed silence."
- H.P Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
- William Gibson, "Neuromancer"

"Garraty wondered if it was embarrassing, being shot in front of people, and guessed by the time you got to that you probably didn't give a tin whistle"
- Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), "The Long Walk"

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
- Jules Verne, "Journey to the Center of the Earth"

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), "The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia"

"Remember Robin, always look both ways."
- Batman

so we can include scripts too?

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle