"We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency."

“I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do”

“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”

“Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.”

“Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.”

Source : Source: asia.nikkei.com

“Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.”

Source : "Big enough to bury Darwin", www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2001.

“If you look good, we look good.”

“Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'”

Source : ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.96

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”