Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate, and it touches a weak point in the traditional Protestant doctrine. Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers tells us that he was brought up -- such was the effect of the current orthodoxy upon him -- in a certain distrust of good works. Some were certainly wanted, but not as being themselves salvation, only, as he puts it, as tokens of justification. It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in... An atonement that does not regenerate... is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

A host in himself.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity. -Doc Childre.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut.

Always leave loved ones with loving words, it may be the last time you see them.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.