You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources; you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources. - Unknown

Life is a voyage in which we choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management of the sails and the guidance of the helm.-Unknown

The attentive reader will notice two items about the New
Testament, as he comes to the end of it. For one thing, there
is no book of church order, laying down a code of rules for the
worship and organization of the communities: [there is] no book
corresponding to the Book of Leviticus. The other thing is that
the writings are all meant for communities, not for
individuals: they reflect and presuppose the life of a society
or fellowship. Even the private notes of Paul to Philemon and
of the presbyter John to Gaius are addressed to these
individuals as members of the church;- James Moffatt (1870-1944), A New Translation of the Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1935, New York: Harper, 1935,Introduction, p. xxxv

The evils of riches, to the Christian, are the evils of distraction (the distraction that keeps men from thinking about God), the evils of a false dependence on the created order, and a would-be security that fails to take account o the inevitable fragility of human destiny on this earth.- D. L. Munby

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo