St. Justin Quotes

Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this iswhere faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerfulorganizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.

When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection, and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

Like words written in the sand taken away by wavesThousands of years of culture discovered in lost cavesClimbing to a mountain at it's highest peakOut of no where strength when thought down and weak

The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that.

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice.

The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it.

And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.

Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.

I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest.

Why kill two birds with one stone? I go for the whole nestI am not satisfied with my work unless someone’s a bloody mess

Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

Under a night’s skyFilled with a hundred billion starsIs it so crazy to believeOur paths were destined to cross?

Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.

Those who are blindly led, blindly follow.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Oh, I usually pray in Spanish, speak French to my boyfriend, curse in Dutch, and talk German to my German Shepherd

You are my drug of choiceI know you’re no good for meAnd though I swear my lipsWill never touch you againHere we are, here we are.

Sometimes it feels like even ifEvery inch of my skin was touching yoursI still wouldn’t be close enough to you.

Love gives the best of highsBut also the worst of hangovers.

As joy dwindles with the yearsI wistfully recallWhen the christmas treeLooked ten feet tallAnd the presents under itSeemed endless And more Than mere wrapping paper.

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.