Thomas Powell

“I speak only for myself, mind – it is my own truth alone – but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have – for what they are – are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

“Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness

“I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

“Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers