One of the great lessons of the fall of the leaf is this: Do you work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.                           ––clergyman Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)

 

God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side when, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else –– something it never entered your head to conceive –– comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?                                      ––C.S. Lewis

 

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.            ––G.I. Gurdjieff

 

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.   ––Jonathan Swift

 

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

 ––Joseph Stalin

 

Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.           ––H.L. Mencken

 

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.   ––Abraham Maslow

 

If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

 ––Yiddish Proverb

 

What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.

 ––Afghan Proverb

 

When the word is yet unspoken, you are the master of it; when once spoken, it is master.      ––Arab proverb

 

There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.                             ––Abraham Lincoln

 

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.                            ––Thomas Jefferson

 

Just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

 ––George Costanza, Seinfeld

 

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.    ––Martin Luther King, Jr

 

History is merely a list of surprises… It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.          ––Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

 

Humor is the only solvent of terror and tension.

—British philosopher Lord Robert Boothby

 

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.                           ––Mahatma Gandhi

 

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.          ––Luciano de Crescenzo