It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.

The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.

Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

Our favourite holding period is forever.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,

A friend in need is a pest.

For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,-- Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That's relativity.