Epically Aligned Quotes & Sayings

A dread of white people now came to live permanently in my feelings and imagination. As the war drew to a close, racial conflict flared over the entire South, and though I did not witness any of it, I could not have been more thoroughly affected by it if I had participated directly in every clash. The war itself had been unreal to me, but I had grown able to respond emotionally to every hint, whisper, word, inflection, news, gossip, and rumor regarding conflicts between the races. Nothing challenged the totality of my personality so much as this pressure of hate and threat that stemmed from the invisible whites. I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors' houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. It filled me with awe, wonder, and fear, and I asked ceaseless questions. One evening I heard a tale that rendered — Richard Wright

If the Letter to the Hebrews treats the entire Passion as a prayer in which Jesus wrestles with God the Father and at the same time with human nature, it also sheds new light on the theological depth of the Mount of Olives prayer. For these cries and pleas are seen as Jesus' way of exercising his high priesthood. It is through his cries, his tears, and his prayers that Jesus does what the high priest is meant to do: he holds up to God the anguish of human existence. — Pope Benedict XVI

The age of miracles is forever here. — Thomas Carlyle

He sees, and smells, that the mishap was caused by a large human turd. — David Mitchell

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. — Mildred H. McAfee

I couldn't imagine that this faint throbbing which had been with me for so long would ever cease. — Albert Camus

You are like pomegranates split open. Even the emptiest among you are as full of good as a pomegranate is full of seed. — Adam Gidwitz