Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.

The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.

I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that is, He taught them to look away from the world of ordinary sense impressions and to open the heart and spirit to God; yet He is always insistent that religion must be related to life. It is only by contact with God that a better quality of living can be achieved -- and Jesus Himself, as the records show, speent many hours in communion with God -- yet that new quality of life has to be both demonstrated and tested in the ordinary rough-and-tumble of plain living. It is in ordinary human relationships that the validity of a man's communion with God is to be proved.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

This last section of Psalm 22 reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The "joy" that was set before Jesus was, we feel, knowing of the riches which would come to his brethren out of his death. In short, we are his joy, set before him when on the cross. As we have seen, only as the circle of the love of Jesus becomes world wide and as big as history will it be complete.

It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.

Not worth the paper it's written on.

Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you've never felt before.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.

What is possible is our highest duty.

To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half don't know.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.