Liz

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

“There are, however, Christians and people of other faiths who seem to have no trouble speaking of God’s ultimacy with one breath and staking out a private territory of God’s activity and grace with the next.”
― Diana L. Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras

“The hysteria can’t last; be patient, and wait and see, he counseled his readers. It was not that he was afraid of the authorities. He simply did not believe that this comic tyranny could endure. It can’t happen here, said even Doremus—even now.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“The point is one that speaks to us all: The moment we human beings grasp God with jealousy and possessiveness, we lose hold of God. One might add that the religious point here is quite the opposite of God’s jealousy, of which we hear so much in the Old Testament; it is God’s infinite capacity to love and the problem of human jealousy.”
― Diana L. Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras