445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.

Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day.

Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power will prove to be inherently problematic.

A superhero is just an ordinary person who has found a better way to mask their human frailties.

Being a prophet in the wilderness speaking truth to power typically leads to poverty and punishment. It is far easier to follow the lucrative trade winds of popular opinion but withheld honesty results in forgotten words.

Martyrdom, the fanaticism of being willing to die for one's beliefs, is the essential ingredient in making others want to follow the code left behind by that sacrificial example.

An oppressive nature is like inclement weather, surrounding others and crushing them down with its infectious gloom.

The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.

In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Tiny Tim is the personification of Scrooge's dormant conscience that he finally acknowledges and embraces in the end.