“Ignorance more freely begets confidence than does knowledge.” Charles Darwin

“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.” Adolf Hitler

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

“Truth is arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign in the Four”

“The optimist is as often wrong as the pessimist, but far happier.” Anonymous

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-9

“I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest.” Genesis 28:15

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-9

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. - George Washington’s Farewell Address