All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college-- I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes. - Horace Smith and James Smith,

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard boiled egg.

Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear, Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 If those who say that we must preach the same message as Paul and the other apostles mean that we should also exhibit the same adaptability and sensitivity to the background culture, then they are right... If, however, they mean that we should expect results merely by repeating the actual phrases found in the New Testament, then they are mistaken. They are making, in fact, one of the basic mistakes in verbal communication, which is to confuse words with what they describe. The gospel is something God has done, not a series of phrases describing it. Saying this does not undermine the Christian's belief in the inspiration of the Bible, for the important thing about the Bible is what it talks about, rather than the way it does the talking. If we considered that there was the same degree of essential inspiration in the way it does the talking, then we would have to insist that every Christian learn Hebrew and Greek. The mere fact that we in the Western world read translations of the scriptures is a clear admission that times and cultures have changed.

Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where wide the storms their banners fling, And the tempest clouds are driven.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to Word and Sacrament -- God's ideas -- is there any faith to be shared or truth to articulate. However, the very setting in which this is received instills the fear of expressing it informally.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

For I light my candle from their torches.

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The style is the man.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.