Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin.

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The little boy greeted his grandmother with a hug and said, "I'm so happy to see you grandma. Now maybe daddy will do the trick." The grandmother was curious. "What trick is that my dear," she asked. The little boy replied, "I heard daddy tell mommy that he would climb the walls if you came to visit us again.".

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.

I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod, There the Adamses snub the Abootts And the Cabots walk with God.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -Bob Hope.

A note left for a pianist from his wife: "Gone Chopin, have Liszt, Bach in a Minuet.".

Maundy Thursday Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 What do I mean by "interpret in a religious sense"? In my view, that means to speak on the one hand metaphysically, and on the other individualistically. Neither of these is relevant to the Bible message or to the man of today. Is it not true to say that individualistic concern for personal salvation has almost completely left us all? Are we not really under the impression that there are more important things than bothering about such a matter? (Perhaps not more important than the matter itself, but more than bothering about it). I know it sounds pretty monstrous to say that. But is it not, at bottom, even Biblical?... It is not with the next world that we are concerned, but with this world as created and preserved and set subject to laws and atoned for and made new. What is above the world is, in the Gospel, intended to exist for this world -- I mean that not in the anthropocentric sense of liberal, pietistic, ethical theology, but in the Bible sense of the creation and of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

What is the end of study, let me know? What, that to know which else we should not know. Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense? Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.