To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Cunning is strength withheld.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a series on the church: The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.

Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Weeding is plant racism.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Children in the back seats of cars cause accidents, but accidents in the back seats of cars cause children.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.