Todd Durkin Quotes & Sayings

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. — John Stott

They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie

One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?
there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such excitedly animated and healthy men. — Leo Tolstoy

The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively. — Alasdair Gray

We are...two open pages of the same book — Hisham Matar

Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.] — Patrick Henry

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. — Joan D. Vinge

The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way. — Bernardino Of Siena