"Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade public life." - Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) (opposing the abolition of the slave trade) - as quoted in Kingdoms in Conflict, by Charles Colson
"The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years." - C S. Lewis, as quoted in Kingdoms in Conflict, by Charles Colson
"We all need more than God and a best friend. We need a group of supportive relationships. The reason is simple: having more than one person in our lives allows our friends to be human. To be busy. To be unavailable at times. To hurt and have problems of their own. To have time alone. Then, when one person can't be there for us, there's another number to call. Another person who may have something to offer. And we aren't enslaved to the schedule conflicts of one person. This is the beauty behind the Bible's teaching on the church, the body of Christ. We are all a group of lumpy, bumpy, unfinished sinners, who ask for help and give help, who ask again and give again." - Boundaries, by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the
same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small
there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big
staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover
story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk
about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher
Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as
quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952.(Source)
" DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular
biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is
twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough
to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see
would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On
the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port
holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual
stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these
openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and
bewildering complexity.”
― Michael Denton, Evolution: Still A Theory in Crisis (2016)
