The church is the great lost and found department.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.

61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of wardrying in the sun.

You can put glitter on shit but it still stinks!!

A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

A good example is the best sermon.

Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual, but through individuals living together as one body, each supplying the deficiencies of the others.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

-Gon.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.