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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
― Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living

“Read God’s Word now as God’s Word, without skipping anything. Underline heavily everything about what our Savior has done for us. And if you like, write ‘For me’ in the margin. You need this yourself, and it is your duty to preach it to your congregation, as well.”
― Bo Giertz, Hammer of God, Revised Edition

“One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view.”
― Bo Giertz, The Hammer of God

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“Nothin’ can be done about the past. It was. But it doesn’t have to be our present or future. We get to move on. We get to make wiser choices based on what that past taught us. We get to serve and bless others using that past.”
― Joy E. Rancatore, Any Good Thing

“As I read more in this one little book, I understood for the first time ever that I’m a sinner. I can’t do anything good on my own—which I pretty much knew. What I didn’t know was there was someone who came to save me. Someone perfect who could take on the punishment I deserved. Perfection’s not in my skill set, but God sent his son Jesus to be that for me. He let himself be put up on that cross—like the one out by the pond—and his father turned his back on him because he took my sin … he took your sin … he took it all on him, so we don’t have to. “Like we’ve all heard Ben say, ‘We can’t ever do more bad than God’s willing and able to forgive.’ More than that, we don’t ever have to be separated from God. I’ve”
― Joy E. Rancatore, Any Good Thing

“You’ll find peace in this porch swing,”
― Jann Franklin, Muffalettas and Murder

“His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself,”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive. Not to be published.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“it would be sheer cruelty to afflict them with excessive leisure.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.' 'What?' said Helmholtz, in astonishment. 'But we're always saying that science is everything.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“the first time since the U.S. Civil War that an American general had surrendered. The Japanese seemed unstoppable.”
― Jeff Langholz, Hold Strong: A World War II Novel about Freedom, Forgiveness, and the True Story of the Deadliest Accident in U.S. Military History