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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. — bumper sticker

I love my country, but I think we should start seeing other people. — bumper sticker

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. — Eskimo proverb

I do not know any way to talk about answered prayer without sounding like a huckster or a honeymooner. When someone wants to tell me how God has answered prayer, those are the first two possibilities that occur to me, anyway: 1) This person wants to sell me something, or 2) This person is not quite sober yet. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Spirituality doesn't make hospice calls. — bumper sticker

A]s the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. — William Sloan Coffin

W]hen I addressed people as I used to frequently in the peace movement, there would be, in the last 10 years, always somebody saying, “I am so disillusioned.” Well, being old now, I can be forthright and say, “Who the hell gave you the right to have illusions in the first place?” We have no right to have illusions. So we have only ourselves to chastise when we feel disillusioned. — William Sloan Coffin

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. — Bishop Desmond Tutu

The rest of Creation cries out against the evil and perversity of the human species. Other creatures fulfill the commandments of God; they honour his laws. And other creatures do not grumble and complain at those laws. But human beings rebel against those laws, defying them in word and action. And in doing so they inflict terrible cruelty on the rest of God's creation. — Hildegard von Bingen

This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned-out star. — Marge Piercy