Saturday, January 08, 2005

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

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good...
Saint Thomas Aquinas

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
William Faulkner

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

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