Nancy Ellis

“We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
― Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

“Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.”
― Dr. V. Raymond Edman

“I sense, I have always sensed, that we slide from light to darkness, from glory to chaos, and perhaps that is good. My gods tell us that the world will end in chaos, so perhaps we are living the last days and even I might survive long enough to see the hills crack and the sea boil and the heavens burn as the great gods fight.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land

“It would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error. The ultimate fate of their cause would be largely determined by what was done in Washington. Leaving Washington forever, they had fatally surrendered the initiative. Now their enemies would seize it.”
― Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury