"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
- J. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
"Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; God probes for what is good."
"I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others' opinions of me, I became more confident and free."
"Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is."
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team."
"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are."
"We wrong those near us in being independent of them. God himself would not be happy without his Son. We ought to lean on each other, giving and receiving - not as weaklings, but as lovers. Love is strength as well as need."