Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate, and it touches a weak point in the traditional Protestant doctrine. Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers tells us that he was brought up -- such was the effect of the current orthodoxy upon him -- in a certain distrust of good works. Some were certainly wanted, but not as being themselves salvation, only, as he puts it, as tokens of justification. It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in... An atonement that does not regenerate... is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.

The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

A student writes a letter via telegram to his Dad . . .It goes . . . no fun, send mon, your Son!Dad write back saying . . . so sad, too bad, your Dad!

Philosophy can not be attained from text on a page... it comes from with the soul.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.