To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
John McCain
Category: Quote
To our wounds only thy wounds can speak, and not a god has wounds but Thou alone.
Edward Shillito
Societies become secular not when they dispense with religion altogether, but when they are no longer especially agitated by it.
Terry Eagleton in Culture and the Death of God
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning it.
Dallas Willard
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri