RANGER

“Neither Ginsberg nor Burroughs achieved the level of fame that Kerouac did in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This is partly because, of the three, Kerouac was the least counter-cultural, the least anti-American in sentiment and purpose. To the contrary, he had a deep love of America as land, as place — On The Road is basically a prose love poem to America — which naturally translated itself into conservative political leanings, albeit of a nonconventional sort. (He famously watched the McCarthy hearings while getting high on marijuana and cheering for McCarthy.)”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West

“You need not be a pastor, nor a deacon, nor a president; you do not need a particular title to be used by God.”
― Michael W. Larson, Refreshed in God's Word Volume 1: Revised Edition

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. ”
― Phillips Brooks

“Bottomless stores of mercy and unbending demands for righteousness almost never go together in any human being. Our temperament inclines us one way or the other. But these are perfectly combined in God.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms