The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.