Benjamin Gietzen

“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to winter's approach. We forget the fogs, the slush, the sore throats an the price of coal, we think only of long evenings by lamplight, of the books which we are really going to read this time, of the bright shop windows and the keen edge of the early frosts.”
― Denis Mackail, Greenery Street

“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“In my end is my beginning.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets