Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem