Monday quote

People who see themselves as the center of their solar system, often get enraptured by their own terrible but also delicious suffering. People who see themselves as a piece of a larger universe and a longer story rarely do.

David Brooks

Monday quote

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton.

Monday quote

Secularists propose that religion and science need not conflict so long as religion is defined their way. Essentially they are saying, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that Caesar says he can have."

Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo.

Monday quote

The truth is that moral values and the belief that life is meaningful are borrowed capital for the atheist, borrowed from the very thing the atheist aims to demolish—belief in God.

James S. Spiegel, The Making of an Atheist.

Monday quote

No man pretended to love his neighbour, but every one said he knew that peace and quiet behaviour was the best thing for himself, and that, he said, was quite as useful, and a great deal more reasonable.

George MacDonald. The Princess and Curdie.