Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy... Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace...

Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

The language of truth is simple.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

The times they are a-changing.

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

The Farmer and His Sons A father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.