Patrick Lewis

“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex but not of love, of science but not of "mystery.”
― Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

“But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.”
― Peter Jackson