“No possible complexity which we can give to our picture of the universe can hide us from God… We read in Revelation of Him that sat on the throne ‘from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.’ It may happen to any of us at any moment. In the twinkling of an eye, in a time to small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish, leaving us naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and great commandment.”

C.S. Lewis God in the Dock

“What, gracious God, is man! that there should be such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct?”

George Washington in George Washington: A Collection compiled and edited by W.B. Allen

“‘Each of us is interested in himself whether he wishes it or not, whether he thinks himself important or not, and for the simple reason that each of us is both the subject and the protagonist of his own nontransferable life.’”

José Ortega y Gasset in Man and Crisis, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign

“Many of the Righteous Gentiles were, along with those they were rescuing, captured and killed. Their names have been lost to history, but not to God.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things November 2003

“There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be angry.”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“You would think men had sworn allegiance to crime!”

Jupiter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (specifically the 1st story “Lycaon” about a werewolf )

“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”

Jordan Peterson on Instagram (all caps in the post) Nov. 18, 2020

“To top off this public relations fiasco [getting lowly Mary pregnant, a poor girl despite her descent, then leaving her to explain the mess], this descent from the heavenly realm, we have the actual birth of the Son of God. What a botched, low-budget affair that was! Unbelievable! Born in a stable. The son of God in a manger – a feeding trough for slobbering cows! Incredible.”

David Kitz Psalms Alive! (regarding many ways God got his hands dirty lifting us out of the mire of our sins)