"Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ."

-- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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“I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.”

Source : "Wanna Write For Latenight? Get Tips From a 'Tonight Show' Producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2015.
“It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world.”
“It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.”
“Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press
“On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to oneâ€™s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.”

Source : Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin
“You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.”
“I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.”
“How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?”

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