Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by concessions which deprive it of its essence or which detract from our Saviour's title to be called The Word of God.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.