All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost:
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
~J.R.R. Tolkien~
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
~William Shakespeare~
We do not think in the holy places; we think in bed, afterward, when the glare, and the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone the solemn monuments of the past,and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.
~Mark Twain~
Hate is bread--baked slowly in the oven of our narcissism and eaten with such haste that we devour our hands and never notice till we reach to touch what we adore and find our fingers gone.
~Calvin Miller~
...the world catches us mostly by the fringes of our garments.
~G.K. Chesterton
Thought and busy being seldom come together.
~Calvin Miller~
For there is no strength in unbelief
~George MacDonald~
For pleasure never comes in what you hold, but in what holds on to you--compelling you to care.
~Calvin Miller~