Go out and be assured that that God is going to last forever. Storms might come and go. Our great skyscraping buildings will come and go. Our beautiful automobiles will come and go, but God will be here. Plants may wither, the flowers may fade away, but the word of our God shall stand forever and nothing can ever stop him. All of the P-38s in the world can never reach God. All of our atomic bombs can never reach him. The God that I'm talking about this morning is the God of the universe and the God that will last through the ages. If we are to go forward this morning, we've got to go back and find that God. That is the God that demands and commands our ultimate allegiance.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
- "Martin Luther King, Jr."
The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock. He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals. ""Sic transit mundus,"" he murmured, looking back at the glow. He slapped the soles of his sandals together, beating the dirt out of them.
- "Walter M. Miller, Jr."
All the categories of life and mind are to my understanding of them teleological.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."
Kiedy się bijesz, uderzaj pierwszy i wal z całej siły.
- "H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.
- "William F. Buckley, Jr."