Dakota Strasinger

“We come now to the unbelief of the Gentiles; and this is indeed a matter for complete astonishment, for they laugh at that which is no fit subject for mockery, yet fail to see the shame and ridiculousness of their own idols.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation

“your own prejudices are the millstone around your neck.”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

“Language is one of the few common experiences humanity has. Not all of us can walk; not all of us can sing; not all of us like pickles. But we all have an inborn desire to communicate why we can’t walk or sing or stomach pickles. To do that, we use our language, a vast index of words and their meanings we’ve acquired, like linguistic hoarders, throughout our lives. We eventually come to a place where we can look another person in the eye and say, or write, or sign, “I don’t do pickles.”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

“If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain