Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 The term "baptism in (or of) the Spirit" conjures up the idea of a separate initiatory experience which every Christian ought to enjoy, whereas evangelicalism is noted for its stress upon a "conversion" experience which marks the beginning of the believer's relationship to his Lord. Too often, alas, conversion has been the end as well as the beginning, with the result that some Christians have looked back, with mingled delight and wistfulness to a past event that now seems to have diminished relevance to daily living. We can fully understand, then, the appeal of a movement which promises a new dimension of Christian living, there in the New Testament, and now available in everyday experience.

Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.

Statistics is like a Bikini; what is revealed is suggestive, but what is concealed is vital.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. -Mother Teresa.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

hear me now, believe me later.

One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.