Desecularization

Alexis de Tocquevill:

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

Heavenward, through Earth & Its Work

My favourite definition of the Christian ministry, from Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, p. 111):

He guides them heavenward, by wise guidance through this Earth and its work.

We Are the Times!

From Augustine:

Bad times! Troublesome times! This men are saying. Let our lives be good; and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. (Sermon 30 on the NT)