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“Kennan's much younger cousin, the diplomat George Frost Kennan, later wrote that timing was one reason Kennan's writings and lectures had such an impact. The trauma of the Civil War had left the country "disinclined to any intensive, introspective analysis of its own weaknesses," and the Russian exile system appealed to the American public's "curious Victorian capacity for sympathy and indignation over evils that were far away.”
― George Gregory Wallace

“The darkness pulls back, startled, shocked, angry. Pulls back, losing its appetite at being so rudely interrupted as it prepared to feed.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Ray Bradbury

“It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul

“Elijah’s fear drove him to the point of being cared for by God, almost as a child—with food to eat, with a place to sleep, with a response to his cries. That’s the direction fear leads when it is leading us away from self-sufficiency and toward the gospel by which we stand. In those cases, fear is not just a reaction but a revelation.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul