Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think whats new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. – Gordon Brown
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit! – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, translated from French by Isabel F.