Chris Glossup

“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“We've submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible.
But simply punishing the broken- walking away from them or hiding them from sight- only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
― Bryan Stevenson

“...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
― Melville, Herman