For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

A rookie cop was asked the following question on an examination: "How would you go about dispersing a crowd?" He answered: "Take up an offering. That does it every time.".

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 It was the experience of the disciples who knew Jesus both before and after the Resurrection, and the conviction which they communicated to others, that laid the foundation of faith. This faith, once given, proved to be -- like the Person who gave rise to it -- essentially self-authenticating. And ever since, the Church has looked to the Cross, a symbol of weakness, as its unique source of power in preaching the Gospel, its authority both to teach and to preach has been of this kind. No amount of liaison between the Church and the source of any other authority, political or moral, must be allowed to obscure the simplicity -- and the mystery -- of the authority of Christ.

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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.