It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.

There are three billion women who don't look like super models and ONLY eight who do.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

It was all so different before everything changed.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Among them, but not of them.

Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That glimmer with an amethystine light.

He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him. When I meet him there, I shall be able to tell him, and then he will be as able to tell me; yet then we shall be but able to tell one another. This, this that we enjoy is heaven, but the tongues of Angels, the tongues of glorified Saints, shall not be able to express what that heaven is; for, even in heaven our faculties shall be finite.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.