Sometime around 318 Arius openly challenged teachers in Alexandria by asserting that the Word (Logos) who assumed flesh in Jesus Christ (John 1:14) was a lesser god who had a different nature than God the Father and that the Son was neither eternal nor omnipotent. He was a created being—the first created being and the greatest, but nevertheless himself created.
Such teaching appealed to many of the former pagans; it was so much like the religion of their youth. Converts from paganism found it hard to grasp the Christian belief that the Word existed from all eternity and that he is equal with the Father. Arius made Christianity easier to understand.
'Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.
She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond.
According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.
Maybe that was the real life lesson.
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A Life Lesson from Atticus Finch
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
"When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”
That lesson has stuck with me my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you
better.
"İyiyim... Çalışıyorum, çiçeklerimi yetiştiriyorum. Sizin gibi ahmaklarla poker oynuyorum. Daha ne istiyorsunuz?"
"Sadece hayatta kalmaya çalışıyorsun, Nash. Biz senin için bundan daha fazlasını istiyoruz. Hepimizin... özel hayatına düşkün olduğunu anlıyorum. Eskiden yalnız çalıştığımız işlerimiz vardı, ama artık yok." Ellerini açtı. "İyi günde de kötü günde de birbirimizi bulduk."
"Katillerden oluşan, birbirine karışmış, berbat bir aile."
Alessio'nun dudakları kıvrıldı. "Evet, ama bu bizim işimize yarıyor. Bu bizim ailemiz. Ve hiçbir aile mükemmel değildir."
"Merhaba." Sesi derindi, hafif bir boğukluk vardı.
"Aşağılık herif." Tezgahtan bir bez alıp ellerimi sildim. "Uzakta olduğunu sanıyordum."
"Geri döndüm."
Alessio Rossi resmen emekli olmuştu. Bir zamanlar New York'taki İtalyan Mafyası'nın korkulu rüyasıydı. Eski mafya tetikçisi ve suikastçısı, bu hayattan kurtulmak için cinayetler işlemişti. Bununla birlikte, hâlâ izinsiz bazı yan işler yapmaktan hoşlanıyordu.