Wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers!

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

You will find only what you bring in.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly . The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says.