When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Men tell you the facts, but God will tell you the truth!

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.

Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.

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?

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal; For a limited time.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882 The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.