"Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature."

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Source : Charles J. Chaput (2017). “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World”, p.225, Henry Holt and Company

Charles J. Chaput

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Romance Quotes

“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”
“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”
“I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.”
“Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.”
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.”
“among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House
“I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.”

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