“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut.” Alexander Graham

“If any man seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue...this mans religion is in vain”

“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.” Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” Aristotle

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.” Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland

“Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.” Glen Cook, The Black Compan

“Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.” Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” A.A. Milne

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” Maimonides

“Self-consciousness kills communication.” Rick Steves

Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ Matt 22:37

“Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.” Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.” Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajev

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." Mahatma Gandhi

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.” Abraham Lincoln

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Rom 12:1

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life” Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.” Orson Scott Card

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.” Orson Scott Card