Nancy Holte

“Extreme expressions of emotions are almost always a sign that "there's an issue under the issue.”
― Rob Ketterling, Speed of Unity: You'll Know It When You Feel it

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild" and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
― ursula le guin