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Success has made failures of many men.
Success has made failures of many men.
 If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of 
yourself. What isn't part of read more 
 If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of 
yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. 
 Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
 [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit read more 
 Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
 [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.] 
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get read more
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have read more
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it read more
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did read more
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.