“A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.”
“And a girl could give herself only in love. Mutual love. Otherwise she'd ruin herself for nothing. A girls body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.”
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
“And thus Bacchus turned Phyllis into his slave. She had become the lovely slave girl, Briseis, whom Achilles took as a war prize & whom Achilles had to yield to Agamemnon, his boss. Just as Phyllis was the prize that Eros found & whom Eros had to yield to Bacchus,his boss.[MMT]”
“I suspect God is more glorified in a humble room of earnest worshipers than a massive production designed to sound "relevant" to the listeners but no longer relevant to God. When the worship of God turns into a "worship experience," we have derailed as the body of Christ.”
“When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common ؛ I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence”