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1 " There is a great risk that Christians may become idolaters if they lose the meaning of silence. Our words inebriate us; they confine us to what is created. Bewitched and imprisoned by the noise of human speech, we run the risk of designing worship to our specifications, a god in our own image. Words bring with them the temptation of the golden calf! Only silence leads man beyond words, to the mystery, to worship in spirit and in truth. Silence is a form of mystagogy; it brings us into the mystery without spoiling it. "
― Robert Sarah , The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
2 " Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good? "
― Augustine of Hippo , Confessions
3 " Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. "
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4 " The bats inebriate the sky . . . "
5 " Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could. "
