Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life of the believers in them, smothers or drives it out of the ekklesia, and makes [the churches] merely dead institutions. Christians who really have life in Christ cannot exist within such a corpse and will at last have to come out of it. But in almost all cases, those who have come out of dead institutions want to have in their place another institution or other rituals and ceremonies, only repeating the same error. Instead of turning to Christ Himself as their center, they again seek to find fellowship and spiritual security on the very same basis that failed, not realizing that it is the institution that is killing, instead of producing, life in Christ. [Continued tomorrow].

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

To admire nothing, Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

You never lose by loving, you only lose by holding back.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.