"O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them."

“Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.”

Source : Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.233, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.”

“Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.”

“I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.”

“Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.”

“Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.”

“There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.”

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.”

Source : Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press