Spiritual Quotes

Originally posted by RatX
thanks for regurgitating an absolute jaundiced vitriolic and stupid bit of sarcasm...

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It's a piece of satire & was posted quite properly in the quotes thread, where almost everything has been cut & pasted from somewhere. Satire is a venerable literary genre, even practised by Christians like Jonathan Swift, to whom Burroughs admittedly caustic writing has been compared.

Originally posted by RatX
I love satire...

Just wondering why you decide to post his bile.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It amuses me.

Originally posted by RatX
a-muse? Perhaps it could hold new meaning just for you.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bit of a stretch, really. Burroughs makes me laugh out loud. What satire do you enjoy?

Originally posted by RatX
Uh, Madam&Eve?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Not the TV version I hope.

You must have read Gulliver's Travels at some point.

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."

"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."

-Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor

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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

Buddha

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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

Buddha

Originally posted by ivanhoe
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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

Buddha

My memory is almost gone, but I remember one thing: that I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace"