Joshua

“Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.”
― William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
― William Congreve

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals