Flannery O’Connor

It seems to be a fact that you suffer as much from the church as for it. — Flannery O’Connor

St. Hildegard of Bingen

Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive burning offering before the altar of God. — St. Hildegard of Bingen

Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

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An elderly man, walking in the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march in 1965, said: “Risk in faith, decide in hope, and suffer the consequences in love.”

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Thucydides

The strong do as they can, while the weak suffer what they must. — Thucydides

Chalmers Johnson

On the eve of our entry into World War I, William Jennings Bryan, President Woodrow Wilson's first secretary of state, described the United States as "the supreme moral factor in the world's progress and the accepted arbiter of the world's disputes." — Chalmers Johnson

Rabia al-Adawiyya, 8th century Sufi mystic

If I adore You out of fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I adore You out of desire for paradise, lock me out of paradise. But if I adore You alone, do not deny to me Your eternal beauty. — Rabia al-Adawiyya, 8th century Sufi mystic