I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

One thought fills immensity.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast With the new leaven, The bread of heaven: All welcome, even the least!

They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself -- "this grace wherein we stand". This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit's liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?

The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er, To gather in his fragrant winter store, Humming in calm content his winter song, Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast, The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips, But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips The single drop of sweetness closely pressed Within the poison chalice.

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.