Janelle

“Isolation from local needs and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best”
― Christine D. Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
― John Adams

“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore