Just as children bring their broken toys for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God because he was my friend. Instead of leaving him in peace to work alone, I stuck around and tried to help with ways that were my own. At last I snatched them back and cried "how could you be so slow?" "My child", he said, "What could I do, you never did let go".

If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.

At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely personal questions, such as the following: Have you experienced any particular temptations during the past week? How did you react or respond to those temptations ? Is there anything you are trying to keep secret, and, if so, what? At this point, the modern Christian swallows hard! We are often coated with a thick layer of reserve and modesty which covers "a multitude of sins" -- usually our own. Significantly, James 5:16-20, the original context of that phrase, is the passage which urges, "Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.".

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.

Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise, Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.

To pile Ossa upon Pelion.

. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .