“To explain God would be to have no God, my little one.”
Ugla's father
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
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“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”
Max Lucado
(1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“Up close, North Korea is not Stalinist — it’s simply racist.”
Brian Reynolds Myers
(1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, North Korea's Race Problem (February 2010)
Joan of Arc
(1412–1431) French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
First public examination (21 February 1431) http://www.stjoan-center.com/Trials/sec01.html
Trial records (1431)
Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, Part 3. Robert E. Smith, tr.<cite>Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe</cite>. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909), pp.499-500. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-quoting.txt
Context: By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?
“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”
Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)
