In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day; And since this business so fair is done, Let us not leave till all our own be won.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation of every man is that he will not own the truth, he will not act as if it were true, that except he were joined with Christ, he could not think, breathe, live a single hour.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.

He is well paid that is well satisfied. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649 Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours, it is mine, and if it is mine, it is yours. We must do it together -- or be cast aside together, and God in his absolute freedom goes on by other means to use His Church in hastening His Kingdom. ...Howard Hewlett Clark January 31, 1998 Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 The axioms of reason are non-demonstrable assumptions. Why should faith not be granted the same privilege? The denial of the truths of faith is, in the last analysis, no less a faith than faith itself, for it rests on personal assumptions which are apart from scientific necessity. In other words, as the truth of reason carries its own evidence, so also with faith. To the mind to whom the axioms of reason are not self-evident, they cannot be proven. So also in the case of faith: for the mind that is not enlightened by faith, the evidence of faith is ridiculous. But for the man whose eyes have been enlightened by the Spirit, faith has its proper evidence, though different from that of reason. The only sufficient ground of faith is the authority of God Himself as he addresses me in His Word.

That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.

During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.