"Faith begins where religious pretension ends"

“The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.”

“The psalm (Psalm 56) hints at the recognition that fear and trust may coexist. The life of faith is then one in which we live in trust even if we also know fear. Perhaps, indeed, trust only exists in the presence of fear.”

“That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.”

“Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!”

“We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.”

Source : John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”

“The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.”

“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.”

Source : "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

“No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.”

Source : Victor Robinson (1907). “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft”