candela

As we see our face, figure, and dress in the glass, and are interested in them because they are ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as they do or do not answer to what we should like them to be; so in imagination we perceive in another's mind some thought of our appearance, manners, aims, deeds, character, friends, and so on, and are... See more

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. —John 1:1 An intelligent plain man, untaught in the truths of Christianity, coming upon this text, would likely conclude that John meant to teach that it is the nature of God to speak, to communicate His thoughts to others. And he would be right. A word is a medium by w

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“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”

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bell hooks

The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words.

1 En el principio la Palabra existía,*+ la Palabra estaba con Dios+ y la Palabra era un dios.+ 2 Él estaba en el principio con Dios.+ 3 Todas las cosas llegaron a existir por medio de él,+ y sin él no llegó a existir ni siquiera una sola cosa.