The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara de Angelis

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Phyllis Schlafly

If we the children of humanity don't start taking steps to walk towards world peace...Who will??? Why wait to make a difference...Start living a peaceful life-style today!?

Timothy Pina

It's true hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

George Eliot

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

Bob Schieffer

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

James Arthur Baldwin