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“I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return,” he said. This was an understatement. Churchill was desperate to know how well his courtship of Hopkins was progressing, and what indeed he would tell the president. “Well,” Hopkins said, “I’m going to quote you one verse from that Book of Books in the truth of which Mr. Johnston’s mother and my own Scottish mother were brought up—” Hopkins dropped his voice to a near whisper and recited a passage from the Bible’s Book of Ruth: “Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Then, softly, he added: “Even to the end.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

“"La imaginación es un modo fundamental de pensar, un medio esencial de convertirse en humano y seguir siéndolo. Es una herramienta mental. En consecuencia, tenemos que aprender"”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Secular progressives who have a problem with the notion of a ‘Christian nation’ probably wouldn’t mind if our nation looked a little more like Christ.”[”
― Tom Krattenmaker, The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians

“Curiously, only 13 percent of those surveyed could correctly identify the source of the following principle: “You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless.” Fifty-four percent misattributed it to a variety of contemporary politicians and celebrities, including Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono. Let the record show that the actual source is the Bible—Proverbs 31: 8–9.[”
― Tom Krattenmaker, The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians