“No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.” ― Richard M. Weaver
“Your greatest contribution is the ones you leave behind.” — Alan Jackson (from “Small Town Southern Man”)
“Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.” — Cicero
“Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.” — Cicero
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” — Cicero
“There is no place more delightful than home.” — Cicero
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis
“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.” — Marilynne Robinson
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.” – Aristotle
“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” – Walker Percy
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard (The Writing Life)
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” — Wendell Berry
“Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.” — Cicero
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O’Connor
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” — Flannery O’Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose) [This applies to understanding the Bible as well; Scripture is literary art.]
“Everywhere I go l’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” — Flannery O’Connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O’Connor
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” — T. S. Eliot
“The hero can never be a relativist.” ― Richard Weaver
“The number one symptom of depression is rumination, pathologically obsessing over your pain. Getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you, sitting around, talking and thinking about your problems is a bad habit.” — Abigail Shrier
“It is essential to your own future that you shall learn the history of the past truly.” -– Robert Lewis Dabney
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“We have not yet arrived at the goal. There are still treasures in the Scriptures, the knowledge of which have remained hidden to us. All the misery of the Presbyterian churches is owing to their striving to consider the Reformation as completed, and to allow no further development of what has been begun by the labor of the Reformers. The Lutherans stop at Luther, many Calvinists at Calvin. This is not right. Certainly, these men in their time were burning and shining lights; nevertheless, they did not possess an insight into the whole of God’s truth and if able to arise from their graves, they would be the first to accept gratefully all new light. It is absurd to believe that during the brief period of the Reformation all error has been banished, just as it is absurd to believe that Christian understanding has completed its task.” — John Robinson (1620)
“We have hundreds of jellyfish clergymen who seem not to have a single bone in their body of divinity. They have no definite opinions; they belong to no school or party; they are so afraid of extreme views that they have no views at all. We have thousands of jellyfish sermons preached every year, sermons without an edge or a point or a corner, smooth as billiard balls, awakening no sinner, and edifying no saint. We have legions of jellyfish young men annually turned out from our universities, armed with a few scraps of second hand philosophy, who think it a mark of cleverness and intellect to have no decided opinions about anything in religion, and to be utterly unable to make up their minds as to what is Christian truth…” — J. C. Ryle
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