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“If a book is so agonizing that you avoid reading it, put it down and pick up one that brings you pleasure. Life is too short and books are too plentiful not to. Besides, one can’t read well without enjoying reading.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

“Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian’s calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.”
― Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Chris: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ

“With the exception of those born in refugee camps, every refugee used to have a life. It doesn’t matter whether you were a physician in Bosnia or a goat herder in the Congo: what matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refugee means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

“DIFFERENCES OF OPINION Wendy Cope I HE TELLS HER He tells her that the earth is flat—He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times