Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people read more

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of read more

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater read more

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms read more

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.