"Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn.” "
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds"
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"a king can only work with his best tools."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"We cannot build the future by avenging the past."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"God has spoken, and everything else is commentary."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does"
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody."
— Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith)

"Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore."
— Frank E. Peretti (Monster)

"Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it."
— Frank E. Peretti (Monster)