You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Marriage - is an expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The groves were God's first temples.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Baseball is a game of inches.

No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each season looked delightful as it past, To the fond husband and the faithful wife.

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Feast of Michael & All Angels None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful workings of unbelief, doubtings, carnal fears, murmurings. Thank God one day we will be done forever with "unbelief.".

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.