Clergyman quotes

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.