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"They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, politica…

... the abbot of our monastery always said that fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. Barry Hughart, Bridge of Bird

Having hope means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setba…

No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including …

Citizens assemble with the sole goal of declaring that they disapprove of the course of government. To meddle in the government of society and to spe…

Surrender is not giving up. Surrender is giving God access – and then getting to work. Father Mike Schmitz Amen, amen.

Who is Christ if not the Word of God: "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God?' This Word of God was…

In 1908, in a wild and remote area of the North Caucasus, Leo Tolstoy, the greatest writer of the age, was the guest of a tribal chief “living far aw…

We must certainly be in a novel; What I like about this novelist is that he takes such trouble about his minor characters. G.K. Chesterton As a mino…

[My father's] den or study was piled high with the stratified layers of about ten or twelve creative amusements; water-colour painting and modell…

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. Autobi…

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, 1984 It seems funny when you first read it. Upon rereading, …

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Pratchett can comment on so many levels with just on…