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“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
“There are no useful self-help books on being holy.”
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.”
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