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“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith”
― The Apostle Paul

“I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape, and it's a wonderful relief.”
― Tom Skinner

“Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system.”
― J.C. Ryle

“A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring”
― Sir Philip Sidney

“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight”
― Sun Tzu

“We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born”
― Aaron Sorkin

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao”
― John Steakley, Armor

“Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.”
― Michael Flynn, Eifelheim

“But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.”
― Michael Flynn, Eifelheim

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.”
― Paul Brand

“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

“We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.”
― Coretta Scott King

“A picture is a poem without words.”
― Horace

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
― Horace, The Epistles of Horace

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”
― Horace

“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
― Horace

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.


Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ”
― Philip Yancey

“I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.”
― Philip Yancey

“Some things just have to be believed to be seen.”
― Philip Yancey, Grace Notes: Daily Readings with a Fellow Pilgrim

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“So now, from this mad passion
Which made me take art for an idol and a king
I have learnt the burden of error that it bore
And what misfortune springs from man's desire...
The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time
That I was given for reflecting upon God.”
― Michelangelo