School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat All button'd down before.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.

Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer, And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.

All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. .

No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Form-criticism... has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was possible throughout the gospels to distill from them a "Life of Jesus" that would be free from dogmatic presuppositions and not affected by any "retouching" derived from the faith of the Church. In fact, however, faith in Jesus Christ crucified and risen did not first appear at some later stage in the tradition, but was the foundation of the tradition, the very soil out of which it grew; and it is in light of that faith alone that the tradition can be understood. This faith in Jesus Christ, the Crucified and Exalted One, explains both the things which the primitive tradition makes known to us, with its manifest concern for the factual truth of the tradition about Jesus, and at the same time the peculiar liberty which the evangelists take in making alterations in the record in points of detail. In relating the acts and words of Jesus, they do not refer back to any sort of "archives" possessed by the community... Jesus Christ is not for them a figure of past history whose proper place is in a library.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.

Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.

Joking set aside.

Have less. Do less. Be more.

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

God helps everyone with what is his own.