Gene Coatney

“It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The God of All Comfort

“Great numbers of the Gnomes, and of the Dark-elves, they took captive and led to Angband, and made thralls, forcing them to use their skill and knowledge in the service of Morgoth. They laboured without rest in his mines and forges, and torment was their wage.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings

“Christianity is not a creed for good men, but for men.”
― G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England

“this degraded view of custom and courtesy, far from being merely cosmetic, threatens our capacity to sustain culture and forge authentic connections with other people and peoples.16 The loss of courtesy in the older and richer sense of the term signals a growing inability to connect with anyone but our own increasingly limited selves.”
― Jay Richards, The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot