Quotes collected by a Facebook friend:

"We're all latecomers to history. When we get here, all this stuff has happened." -- Jaya Savige

"How can a conscious spirit be anything other than an absolute desire for God?" -- Henri de Lubac

"The sacramental life is one that is open to the presence of God, and can open a door for others into eternal movements of love and justice that are there ahead of us, and before us, and embracing us." -- Paul S. Fiddes

"Hinduism is rich, Buddhism sophisticated, Judaism essential, Islam muscular and Christianity true." -- John Dickson

"The gospel always bowls, never goes into bat." --Oliver O'Donovan

"[It is] my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made the servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges." -- Reinhold Niebuhr

"I propose ... that we learn to live with the Earth as a part of it; by managing ourselves, and by humbly taking and giving the gifts that sustain all of us who live on this planet." -- James Lovelock, Gaia

"The rule is," said Vertue, "that if we have one chance out of a hundred of surviving, we must attempt it: but if we have none, absolutely none, then it would be self-destruction, and we need not." -- C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought." -- Gandalf

"So let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." -- President John F. Kennedy, commencement address, American University, 1963

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." --Douglas Coupland, jpod.