"[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self."

“Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.169, New World Library

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”

“Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.”

Source : "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

“When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.”

“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”

“When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.”

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

“I voted for you during your last election.”