From Life Quotations

PRINCIPLES ARE WHAT people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbor's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. "Principle" is an even duller word than "religion."                             -Frederick Buechner

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.                                                   -Carl Gustav Jung

Instead of going to heaven at last, I’m going all along.                                                                                                               -Emily Dickinson