Clergyman's

“It was actually a women’s writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.”
– Mary Gordon

“Therefore, don’t let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.”
– Elias Hicks

“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.”
– Jonathan Sacks