The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Continuing a short series on the Bible: Scripture nowhere condemns the acquisition of knowledge. It is the wisdom of this world, not its knowledge, that is foolishness with God... The history of philosophy is a story of contradictory, discarded hypotheses... Many of them have failed to avail themselves of that which would unravel every knot and solve every problem, namely, the revelation of God in Christ as given in the Holy Scriptures.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion; 'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

, The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment and no other, time as we know it stops. You can Freeze-Frame and stop. Then you can make another choice. You can stay in the same holographic pattern or you can choose a different one. -Sara Paddison.