Faith is reason grown courageous.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

A little girl can be sweeter oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves . . .

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 People naturally do not shout it out, least of all into the ears of us ministers; but let us not be deceived by their silence. Blood and tears, deepest despair and highest hope, a passionate longing to lay hold of ... Him who overcomes the world because He is its Creator and Redeemer, its beginning and ending and lord -- a passionate longing to have the word spoken, the word which promises grace in judgment, life in death, and the beyond in the here and now, God's word -- this it is that animates our church-goers.

Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

A thorn in the flesh.

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

A relationship is like sand in your hand. If held loosely in the palm of your hand it stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly it slips through your fingers. A relationship is like that held tenderly with respect for the other person it last, but once you close your hand to hold on tightly it slips through your fingers.

Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.