Lynda

“I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“How often we prefer division with regard to language and culture over union in the Spirit of Truth! The Holy Spirit is a spirit of unity, and in this unity we find not a flattening of human variety, but harmonious diversity: rich and poor, erudite and simple, young and old, male and female. It is the human and sinful element of the Church that often tries to turn the Church into a gathering of like-minded people with common cultural interests: a church for
a particular ethnic group, a church for the young, a church for the old, a church for the super-pious.”
― Vassilios Papavassiliou, Meditations for Pascha: Reflections on the Pentecostarion

“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.”
― Irving Kristol