Gina

“You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

“It is right that creation should exist as he has made it and as we see it happening, because this is his will, which no one would deny. For if the movement of the universe were irrational, and the world rolled on in random fashion, one would be justified in disbelieving what we say. But if the world is founded on reason, wisdom and science, and is filled with orderly beauty, then it must owe its origin and order to none other than the Word of God.”
― St. Athanasius

“The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“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