“Human rights cannot exist without God.”
Montes de Oca, a Cuban dissident and Pentecostal, in an interview with Jay Nordlinger quoted by Nordlinger in National Review June 11, 2001
“Don’t hate yourself in the morning – sleep till noon.”
Ashley Elliott quoted as the “Smile” (a feature contributed by readers, I believe) in Globe & Mail June 29, 2001
“Satan wants you to think that your sin and temptation are unique so you must keep them a secret. The truth is, we’re all in the same boat. We all fight the same temptations, and ‘all of us have sinned.’ Millions have felt what you’re feeling and have faced the same struggles you’re facing right now. The reasons we hide our faults is pride.”
Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life
“I will bloom wherever I am planted.”
MP Diane Ablonczy quoted in National Post July 10, 2000 [specifically to do with internal Canadian Alliance matters but a maxim of far broader relevance]
“‘France may be a predominantly Roman Catholic country, but it is also officially secular, with separation of church and state one of its most sacred tenets.’ – New York Times, April 8”
The Wall St. Journal's OpinionJournal April 8, 2005 [under the very appropriate headline “If It’s Sacred, Doesn’t It Violate Itself?”]
“Is Britney Spears the next Madonna? I surely hope not. One of either is a surplus.”
Rex Murphy in Globe & Mail Nov. 10, 2001
“We must have a holiday from habits, instead of merely a habit of taking holidays.”
G.K. Chesterton in London Magazine August 1924, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2012)
In my latest National Post column I say John Le Carré’s novels were morally rotten and dangerous in practice.