Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.

By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave; But no man built that sepulcher, And no man saw it e'er, For the angels of God upturned the sod And laid the dead man there.

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Intet er saa daarligt, at det ikke er godt for noget !

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

The worthy gentleman , who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well; He hath not touched you yet.