Quotes 5 Mar 18

...it is husbands who have done the most damage. , and it is they, who can if they will, do the most good. If the train doesn't move , repair the locomotive. Don't let the cars sit around blaming themselves for not being engines. Above all, don't let them try to act as if they were. For the cars have their own function, they are what the train is really about.They are what the engine is for.All the space in a husband is supposed to be given over to providing traction; it is the wife's capacity for freight that makes the trip worthwhile. The comparison is hardly flattering, but it does manage to be a bit gallant and, and as a husband, I am rather pleased that I was able to get it off. One should try to practice what one preaches, with or without elegance. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 57

Lofty words do not make a man just or holy; but 

a good life makes him dear to God.  I would far 

rather feel contrition than be able to define it. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world 

without hate.  And I can picture us attacking that 

world, because they'd never expect it. 

     --Jack Handey (1949-    ) 

      _Deepest Thoughts_ [1994] 

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute 

thing to tell him is "God is crying." 

And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to 

tell him is "Probably because of something you did." - unk

“Those who do not eat before they understand the entire process by which food arrives at their table will starve to death..those who do not want to believe the Word of God before they see all their problems resolved will die of spiritual starvation” Bavinck