Stephanie Loomis

“The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly free to look at the one we already have and to show exactly what he sees.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Historian John Howe summed up Adams’s feelings on the subject. “Parties accentuated the struggle for political spoils and made personal ambition rather than social virtue the touchstone of political success. Party conflict, by exciting passions and clouding reason, corrupted elections more quickly than anything.”
― Marianne Holdzkom, Remembering John Adams: The Second President in History, Memory and Popular Culture

“I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.”
― Anasazi Foundation

“In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art