#Goodness Quotes
“Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?”
“There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.”
“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”
“Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.”
Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”
“It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.”
“Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.”
“Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on Bible doctrines that we have never cared enough to become?”
“arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
C. S. Lewis Novelist
Donald Miller Author
Francine Rivers Author
Joel Beeke
Khalil Gibran Poet
Mike Love Musician
Patrick Modiano Novelist
Thomas Piketty Economist
Wayne Jacobsen Author
