Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence of God; and , being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wonderings.

What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine, Already polish'd by the hand divine!

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 Faith is not the holding of correct doctrines, but personal fellowship with the Living God... What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation is not truth concerning God but the Living God Himself.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned so what could they do? Said the flea "let us fly" said the fly" let us flee" so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

A hard thing about business is minding your own.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

You don't look at a picture of a Chevy when you drive a Cadillac.

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

He's a few balloons short of a parade.