There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced. It is certainly important to have an intellectual grasp of the orb of Christian truth; but it is still more important to have a vital, living experience of the power of Jesus Christ. When a man undergoes treatment from a doctor, he does not need to know the way in which the drug works on his body in order to be cured. There is a sense in which Christianity is like that. At the heart of Christianity there is a mystery, but it is not the mystery of intellectual appreciation; it the mystery of redemption.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

What is this, a tea party?

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, -Unknown.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.