“The friendship that can cease has never been real.” ― Saint Jerome     “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” ― Saint Jerome     “The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom” St. Jerome” ― St. Jerome   “Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.” ― St. Jerome   “Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?” ― Saint…

“Because I learned long ago that winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize. Sometimes you get progress, and that counts.” ― Stacey Abrams     “Logic is a seductive excuse for setting low expectations.” ― Stacey Abrams   “From the moment I enter a room, I am clear about how I intend to be treated and how I intend to engage. I do not tell self-deprecating jokes about my race or gender, though I will do so about my personal idiosyncrasies. I can be charmingly humble or playfully self-effacing without pandering to stereotypes in order to make others comfortable. For example, my attire, my hairstyle, even my presentation style,…

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” ― Stephen Colbert     “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed…