Laghetto Quotes & Sayings

When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody. — Vladimir Lorchenkov

She bowed her head and said, "Lord of hosts, please stand with us against this darkness." The quiet, bedrock-deep energy of true faith brushed against me.
Murphy echoed the gesture and the amen. Thomas and I tried to look theologically invisible. — Jim Butcher

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. — Woodrow Wilson

I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare. — Sheldon Vanauken

Oh, my God, if the value of prayer were but known, the great advantage which accrues to the soul from conversing with Thee, and what consequence it is of to salvation, everyone would be assiduous in it. It is a stronghold into which the enemy cannot enter. He may attack it, besiege it, make a noise about its walls; but while we are faithful and hold our station, he cannot hurt us. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains. — Edmund Sears

Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation. — Eric Schlosser

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr