January 2010
11 posts
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty...”
– Vaclav Havel
“When I walk in my house I see pictures,
bought long ago, framed and hanging,...”
– Donald Hall, The Things
“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need...”
– Leo Rosten
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung...”
– C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
– Robert Browning
“If you want to build a ship, don’t heart people together to collect wood...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no...”
– Thomas Aquinas
“The overcautious will accomplish little.”
– Johann von Schiller
“The person who is plunged into doubt is not the unbeliever but the person who...”
– Jacques Ellul
“To hope is to risk frustration. Therefore, make up your mind to risk...”
– Thomas Merton
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke