We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a "down-payment", on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

He is so bright his father calls him son.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning -- just as, if there were no light in the universe, and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know that it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.