“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” - Ecclesiastes 3:11

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9

“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We speak of love when we destroy nature. It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.” - Toba Beta

“A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of saints and sinners. My heart ached to embark on a journey of liberation and taste of the Tree of Life where saint and sinner are one in love. Every saint has a story, and all sinners have glorious pages yet to be written.” 
― R.J. Blizzard, Incarnate: The Incredible Journey of Edward Mayus