Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.

Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under any law; in France, as here, they would be regular jail-birds. But I loved them better and better -- and still I knew how little was my love for them compared to Christ's. It is easy enough for a man to be honest and a "Good Christian" and keeper of "the moral law", when he has his own little room, his purse well filled -- when he is well shod and well fed. It is far less easy for a man who has to live from day to day, roaming from city to city, from factory to factory. It is far less easy for someone just out of jail, with nothing to wear but old down-at-the-heels shoes and a shirt in rags. All of a sudden, I understood our Lord's words: "I was in prison ... and you visited me not." All these men, lazy, outside the law, starving: these failures of all kinds -- they were dear to Christ -- they were Christ, waiting in prison for someone to lean over Him -- and if we were true Christians, we would do them every kindness.

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face of the world's need. The American standard of living has risen to unprecedented heights, although a large portion of the world exists on a sub-human level. Philanthropy, as we practice it, is not enough --- although the word philanthropy actually means brotherhood. Our stewardship of God's goods requires that we administer in God's name -- that is, with full awareness that the world is His and that His love is directed toward us no more fully than toward every man.

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

To manipulate an image is to control a people

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The White Plume of Navarre.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.