Benmart Quotes & Sayings

We all, like Frodo, carry a Quest, a Task: our daily duties. They come to us, not from us. We are free only to accept or refuse our task- and, implicitly, our Taskmaster. None of us is a free creator or designer of his own life. "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself" (Rom 14:7). Either God, or fate, or meaningless chance has laid upon each of us a Task, a Quest, which we would not have chosen for ourselves. We are all Hobbits who love our Shire, or security, our creature comforts, whether these are pipeweed, mushrooms, five meals a day, and local gossip, or Starbucks coffees, recreational sex, and politics. But something, some authority not named in The Lord of the Rings (but named in the Silmarillion), has decreed that a Quest should interrupt this delightful Epicurean garden and send us on an odyssey. We are plucked out of our Hobbit holes and plunked down onto a Road. — Peter Kreeft

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention. — Mal Fletcher

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. — Warren Buffett

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn. — Pee Wee Reese

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing. — Daisy Whitney

The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him ... — Karl Barth

No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss. — Janette Rallison