"I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital."

-- John Henry Carver

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“This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.”
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
“Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.”
“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”

Source : "The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.
“When one does not feel life or death, it's the best future.”
“We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.”

Source : Andrew Murray (1997). “Reaching Your World For Christ”, p.47, Whitaker House
“I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.”

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