Colin Cloutus

“In the hardest winter the roots are sill alive in the frozen ground.”
― George MacDonald, England's Antiphon

“When the Metaphysical Society was discussing Joshua's sun standing still upon Gibeon, John Ruskin is represented to have said that it would not surprise him at all to see the sun stop; the wonder to him was that it always went on.”
― John Ruskin

“Sedition comes from hell, and should be driven back to its accursed habitation, to roar in chains and penal fire. The monster newly born is easily quelled, but when the enormous shape grows fierce and conscious of its own strength, then whole nations perish in its jaws, or gro[a]n beneath its feet.”
― John Cameron, The Messiah. In Nine Books. By John Cameron

“Man is a weak and miserable animal until the light of God burns in his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays on Religion