Steve

“I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all,” said the Baal Shem.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“although minute quantities of chlorine are life-saving, if too much is inhaled in its gaseous form, it can cause death in under thirty minutes. Recently, the Syrian government has used chlorine directly against civilians as a chemical weapon. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has thus transformed a principal element of public health into a tool of both disease and terror.”
― Anonymous

“I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?"—Job xii. 3.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure