Charles

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“we must at all times remember what intellectuals habitually forget... the worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas”
― Paul Johnson, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.”
― Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford