Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not read more

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner read more

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Only the sinner has a right to preach.

Only the sinner has a right to preach.

A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on read more

A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].