From Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents (1770):
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” [Or perhaps: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
From Thomas Jefferson:
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
From Leonard Sweet:
Sometimes Jesus offers hints or suggestions.
From Harold E. Masback, The Shelter of Each Other: Our Ark in Stormy Seas," (October 10, 2004) at pages 12-13:
The average American adolescent views 14,000 sexual references and 12,000 depictions of murder, rape and other violent assaults on television every single year. The average American sees 100,000 advertisements for drinking before they reach 21. Nine out of 10 children aged eight to 16 have viewed pornography on the internet, often without even looking for it.
From Harold Masback, You Shall Love" (October 24, 1999) at page 3:
There’s an old story about a farmer talking to the Lord: “If I had a million dollars, I’d give it all to you, Lord. And, if I had ten-thousand acres, I’d turn them all over to you, Lord.” So the Lord asked, “Well, how about a pig?” “Take it easy there, Lord,” the farmer replied, “I’ve actually got a pig.”
1993
From Judy Mann, quoting Armand Nicholi of Harvard University, Who Taught These 'Men' to Be Men?", in The Washington Post,(July 21, 1993) at page E13:
A Cornell University study found fathers average only 38 seconds a day being totally attentive to their children’s needs and twenty minutes a week being partially attentive.
From Friedrich von Hugel, Life of Prayer (1929):
Now there is no doubt that the prayer of quiet, that a certain formless recollection and loving feeding upon the sense and presence of God, as here and now, is a most legitimate prayer.”
From Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, The Seventh Dwelling Place":
“In this temple of God, in this divine dwelling place, God alone rejoices with the soul in the deepest silence. There is no reason for the intellect to stir or seek anything for, the Lord who created it wishes to give it repose here.”