The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
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- It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.