Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 First in a series on God and the human condition: Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

When rogues like these To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.

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He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.

Enough money to burn a wet dog.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.