This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be."Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.