Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.

The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go on preaching for years to men who refused to act on his teaching. When once he had brought them to a point where decision was clear, he reminded that they should make their choice. If they rejected him, he rejected them... He did not simply "go away"; he openly rejected those who showed themselves unworthy of his teaching. It was part of the Gospel that men might "judge themselves unworthy of eternal life". It is a question which needs serious consideration whether the Gospel can be truly preached if this element is left out.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.Ê.

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Your fame shall make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.

He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that is, He taught them to look away from the world of ordinary sense impressions and to open the heart and spirit to God; yet He is always insistent that religion must be related to life. It is only by contact with God that a better quality of living can be achieved -- and Jesus Himself, as the records show, speent many hours in communion with God -- yet that new quality of life has to be both demonstrated and tested in the ordinary rough-and-tumble of plain living. It is in ordinary human relationships that the validity of a man's communion with God is to be proved.