Zachary Adams

“but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him fro ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, "I am the truth.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Four Books of St. Augustine on Christian Doctrine