Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
- William Carey

The sum of your word is truth, 
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. 
Ps. 119.160 ESV

A great assurance in a world and culture marked by fickleness and lacking understanding of truth. 

contrasting Biblical and Greek views of love (Bloom)

Allan Bloom, in his commentary The Ladder of Love on Plato's Symposium, writes the following.  It is a fascinating compare/contrast between a Biblical/Jewish understanding of "eros or love in the life of man."  I must wonder how this is reflected today in the changing mores of our culture, as we lose the foundation of Judeo-Christian worldview on which the United States was founded, and slide into a post-modern, post-Christian, individualist worldview.

From Plato's Symposium. University of Chicago Press. 1993, 2001.

wisdom of the aged (Plato)

Thought, you know, begins to have keen eyesight when the sight of the eyes starts to decline from its peak...

Plato, Symposium, 219a.

awareness of need (Plato)

Consequently, he who does not believe that he is in need does not desire that which he does not believe he needs.

Plato, Symposium. 204A.