"And just as in vessels that contain water the air is excluded, so with men that are full of solid merit their pride abates, and their estimate of themselves becomes a lower one, and they cease to plume themselves on a long beard and threadbare cloak, and transfer their training to the mind, and are most severe and austere to themselves, while they are milder in their intercourse with everybody else...."
- Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. First Century Greek Philosopher.
"Stories Matter!
Many stories matter.
Stories have been used to disposses and to malign.
But stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.
Stories can break the dignity of a people.
But stories can also repair that broken dignity."
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
" Loving those who love us and lavishing care and honor on those of our own group is something that traitorous oppressors, the mafia, and terrorists do. How then, could that serve to distinguish the goodness of someone born into God's family or the presence of a different kind of reality of life?
(Dallas Willard. The Divine Conspiracy)
