A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.