Gina

“Some people claim we have a Christian heritage in America that needs restoring, but such a claim is debatable and is not well supported by the evidence. We have no biblical warrant to deify the past. Consequently, I find it difficult and possibly wasteful to try to identify just what part of our heritage was Christian in hopes that we can somehow get back to it.”
― Donovan L. Graham, Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom

“Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One might well conceive all of human history as the story of humankind's journey from beauty lost to beauty gradually sought and regained. Never, over the centuries, has the human need for beauty been extinguished...Art, somehow removed from the practical demands of everyday life, reveals that our kinship is not with the biological world only; it is also with the spiritual world.”
― Irina Yazykova, Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography