Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

God will supply all your real needs.

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a short series on prayer: Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.

Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!-- One plunge in the mighty torrent Is a year of tamer life! City of glorious days, Of hope, and labour and mirth, With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays For the ships of all the earth!

Every disadvantage has got it's advantage.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

A person who makes no mistakes, generally makes nothing.

And solid pudding against empty praise.

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.