Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It is easy to throw angels and demons and the cosmic character and relevance of Christ's work upon the scrap heap of ancient superstition and mythology, and to consider them but a manner of speech that is utterly irrelevant for our space age. But if we should feel entitled to throw out one part of the witness of Ephesians to Christ, why not the rest of it also: for instance, Christ's Lordship over the church and in the heart? It is unfair and scarcely honest to consider the Bible or parts of it as a cake from which we can pick out merely the raisins we happen to like. Speaking the truth in love and witnessing to the biblical Christ may imply the necessity to speak also of some very strange things.

Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.

I'm saddest when I sing.

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -W. H. Auden.

Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.

A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!

We are one people and will act as one.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.

But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt, And doubt is brother devil to Despair!

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

it keeps me from the street.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.