Some quotes to chew on

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard

Human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
Harvey Cox

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
Harvey Cox

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer