I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, , The woman that deliberates is lost.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?