Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
Charles Caleb ColtonCustom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
Charles Caleb Colton