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“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. ”
― Phillips Brooks

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.”
― Winston Churchill British Prime Minister

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Bottomless stores of mercy and unbending demands for righteousness almost never go together in any human being. Our temperament inclines us one way or the other. But these are perfectly combined in God.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms

“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors, Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe was that God was watching what they were doing. And as far as we can tell, very few of those carrying out the horrors of the twentieth century worried overmuch that God was watching what they were doing either. That is, after all, the meaning of a secular society.”
― David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
― Robert Bloch

“I think there is a mystical minimum in human history and experience, which is at once too obscure to be explained and too obvious to be explained away.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]

“Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“[When asked how it felt to take human life]


"I wouldn't know, I've only killed communists.”
― Rafał Gan-Ganowicz

“Neither Ginsberg nor Burroughs achieved the level of fame that Kerouac did in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This is partly because, of the three, Kerouac was the least counter-cultural, the least anti-American in sentiment and purpose. To the contrary, he had a deep love of America as land, as place — On The Road is basically a prose love poem to America — which naturally translated itself into conservative political leanings, albeit of a nonconventional sort. (He famously watched the McCarthy hearings while getting high on marijuana and cheering for McCarthy.)”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West

“Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny” and “Beat insurrection” and all that nonsense; they just wanted some youth movement to grab on to for their own political and social purposes. I had nothing to do with any of that. I was a football player, a scholarship college student, a merchant seaman, a railroad brakeman on road freights, a script synopsizer, a secretary … And Moriarty-Cassady was an actual cowboy on Dave Uhl’s ranch in New Raymer, Colorado … What kind of beatnik is that?”[22]”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West

“You need not be a pastor, nor a deacon, nor a president; you do not need a particular title to be used by God.”
― Michael W. Larson, Refreshed in God's Word Volume 1: Revised Edition