The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

In regard to pornography, 41% of all men reported having done one of the following in the last twelve months: watching an X-rated movie, visiting a club with semi-nude or nude dancers, purchasing sexually explicit books, magazines, erotic devices or sex toys, or calling a sex phone number.But of course, those statistics have no relationship to Christians who believe in the authority of the bible, are pro-life, and are committed to their families, right? Think again. A number of years ago a national conference for church youth directors was held at a major hotel in a city in the mid-west. Youth pastors by the hundreds flooded into that hotel and took nearly every room. At the conclusion of the conference, the hotel manager told the conference administrator that the number of guests who tuned into the adult movie channel broke the previous record, far and away outdoing any other convention in the history of the hotel.

Steve Farrar, Finishing Strong,

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!

Minsky M.A.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Robert. L. Ehrlich

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

G. I. Gurdjieff

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of