Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 God in His providence has not allowed the survival of actual physical objects. But we have infinitely more than this, for instead of dead relics, however "authentic" and well preserved, we have a living life-line, stretching unbroken to Christ Himself. We have all the comfort and security that comes from historic tradition, but instead of being given the sad nostalgia of looking at an object and saying, "Look, how wonderful! This is what He touched then," we are given an evergreen memorial [in communion] which says, "This is what He touches now.".

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage, the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

True or true? Yes or yes?.

Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.

Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.