If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

I paint with shapes.

In indolent vacuity of thought.

You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere -- without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.

But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.

It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His absence, for our want of charity to receive Him.

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

No one can ever defeat the Afghans .