Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.-Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] Superstition--what is it but distrust in God! -Mary Cholmondeley _Let Loose in Dracula's Brood_ The inferior man‚s reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates ...

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.-Yiddish Proverb When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. -Chinua Achebe (1930-____): "Arrow of God," 1967. Suffering isn't ennobling; r...

"Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' "- Margaret Cho...

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating...

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder...

Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream. - The Beat Cluster by Fritz Leiber, 1961....

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.--Benjamin Disraeli You are the same today as you will be five years from now except for two things . . . the people you meet and the books you read. --Charles E. Jones Study i...

"We are persuaded that there is no other guide and leader to the Father than the Holy Spirit, just as there is no other way than Christ; and that there is no grace from God save the Holy Spirit.  Grace is itself the power and action of the Spirit: through grace God the Father, in the Son, accomplis...

Who is (was?) Tas Soft Wind? A few quotes have been attributed to Tas Soft Wind, one of the most notable being "I like her because she smiles at me," and tonight a friend asked me if I could find biographical info on this person. I'm not at work (the library) so I don't have access to the ...

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.   –  Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)  American Inventor “What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?”  –Â...