Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

For years has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!

Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a "Christian society". Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

The only cure for grief is action.

It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue!

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.