To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness. -H. L. Wayland.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic Of its tunes amongst the leaves? Oh, is it from the waters, Or from the long, tall grass? Or is it from the hollow rocks Through which its breathings pass?

out of sight, out of mind.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Maundy Thursday Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 What do I mean by "interpret in a religious sense"? In my view, that means to speak on the one hand metaphysically, and on the other individualistically. Neither of these is relevant to the Bible message or to the man of today. Is it not true to say that individualistic concern for personal salvation has almost completely left us all? Are we not really under the impression that there are more important things than bothering about such a matter? (Perhaps not more important than the matter itself, but more than bothering about it). I know it sounds pretty monstrous to say that. But is it not, at bottom, even Biblical?... It is not with the next world that we are concerned, but with this world as created and preserved and set subject to laws and atoned for and made new. What is above the world is, in the Gospel, intended to exist for this world -- I mean that not in the anthropocentric sense of liberal, pietistic, ethical theology, but in the Bible sense of the creation and of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

He that gives should not remember, he that receives should never forget.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear! Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....