"The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution."

“Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?”

“Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.”

“One of my best friends growing up was gay. It's never been an issue for me. I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it meant more woman for me! I don't know what everyone's problem with it is, I wish everyone was gay! That's always the way I thought about it. I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage why shouldn't they?”

Source : "Short Episode: Donald Trump, Jr. Opens Up About Gay Marriage, Women’s Rights, and His Love of Hunting". "The Six Pack" with DJ Ben Harvey and Dave Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”

“Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.”

“There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”