Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.

The main reason for doing it now ... had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. "We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) into a state of death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the splendor of the Father, we too might walk in the newness which belongs to (real) life." To the rite as such Paul did not attach overwhelming importance. "Christ", he says, "did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel." Paul recognized in the idea a most suggestive figure for the change wrought by faith in Christ. He found it necessary to guard against the crude sacramentalism which found in the mere physical process, as such, the actual impartation of new life, quite apart from anything taking place in the realm of inward experience. The Israelites in the wilderness ... received baptism in the Red Sea and in the cloud which overshadowed them; and yet they were disobedient, "the majority of them God did not choose," and they perished miserably. The inference is plain. No sacramental act achieves anything unless it is an outward symbol of what really happens inwardly in experience. The test of that is the reality of the new life as exhibited in its ethical consequences. "How can we who are dead to sin live any longer in sin?" If baptism is a real dying and rising again, then it is indeed a profound revolution in the personal life, a revolution which is simply bound to show itself in a new moral character.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Consumers are statistics, customers are people.

Although they had no first aid class,Egyptians were not dummies.They knew the art of bandaging,They learned it from their Mummies.

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.