To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
~ Compton Gage
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
~ Compton Gage
Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.
~ Compton Gage
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
~ Compton Gage
What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?
~ Compton Gage
Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
~ Compton Gage
Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
~ Compton Gage
As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.
~ Compton Gage
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
~ Compton Gage
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
~ Compton Gage
Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:
~ Compton Gage
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
~ Compton Gage
The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
~ Compton Gage
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
~ Compton Gage
Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-
~ Compton Gage
One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.
~ Compton Gage
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
~ Compton Gage
To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.
~ Compton Gage
An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.
~ Compton Gage
