From A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many", The New York Times, F1:
If you saw this Tuesday’s New York Times “Science” section, then you saw that astronomers now speculate that our universe may be just one universe of thousands in a constantly expanding “multiverse.”
From Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (HarperSanFrancisco, April 1, 2001) at p. 243:
Theologian Dallas Willard teaches that the most adequate description of prayer is just talking to God about what we are doing together.”
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love:
Jesus is eternally right. Upheaval after upheaval have reminded us that humankind is traveling along a road called hate, in a journey that will bring us to destruction and damnation. Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, the command to love one’s enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.
From Clement of Alexandria, Apostolic Tradition:
that he who holds the sword must cast it away and that if one of the faithful becomes a soldier he must be rejected by the Church, for he has scorned God.”
From Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl (1953):
I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians, and the capitalists alone are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago.”
From The Canadian Army Journal:
In 5600 years of recorded human history, there have been 14,531 wars, destroying many millions of lives, and only 292 years of peace.
From James, Madison, Federalist Papers, no. 47:
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
From Reinhold Niebuhr, Must We Do Nothing? (March 30, 1932):
If there is a law in our members which wars against the law that is in our minds as individuals, this is even more true when we think of society.”
From Christopher Shays:
Perhaps you’ve heard Congressman Shays tell the lovely story of coming across Henry Hyde in the congressional cloak room. Hyde’s wife died some years ago, most of his contemporaries have long since retired, and he is nearing the end of his own career. When Shays spotted him slumped alone on a bench, he went over and asked him about a congressional legend. He said, Henry, I’ve heard it said that you loved your wife so much you would give up a week of your life just to walk with her around the block one time.” Looking up slowly, Hyde answered, “Chris, I’d give up ten years of my life just to walk with her around the block one time.”