A. J. Gossip quote: "Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin."

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divini...
A. J. GOSSIP

If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Thanksgiving is the lang...
A. J. GOSSIP

THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Every single time a sacrament is celebrated, God takes a...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of All Saints No doubt the gospel is quite free, as free as the Victoria Cross, which anyon...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoratio...
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Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
A. J. GOSSIP

Good Friday They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made t...
A. J. GOSSIP

Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother w...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, ha...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Gro...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If you w...
A. J. GOSSIP

At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Of course, it all dep...
A. J. GOSSIP

Maundy Thursday Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those who...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Jeremy Taylor gives us some fund...
A. J. GOSSIP

If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Christ became ever ...
A. J. GOSSIP

But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little -- at best, so poor and pinched and st...
A. J. GOSSIP

Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, ...
A. J. GOSSIP

And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their ch...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 The redeemed in Heav...
A. J. GOSSIP

But what is worship? What ought to result from it? What is the point and peak and heart and centre o...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of...
A. J. GOSSIP

Browning ... tells us that what won him for Christ was this, that while others tried to soothe his a...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 We can do nothing, we say somet...
A. J. GOSSIP

A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message alm...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 In prayer we ...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
A. J. GOSSIP

We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious secon...
A. J. GOSSIP

A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with la...
A. J. GOSSIP

Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 Who was it that set up t...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 What exactly has Christ done for you? W...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of James the Apostle We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely t...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's...
A. J. GOSSIP

This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual amb...
A. J. GOSSIP

If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 We...
A. J. GOSSIP

Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simp...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711 When we look at the history of th...
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 You and I drift on through the years du...
A. J. GOSSIP

Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer ...
A. J. GOSSIP

God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.
A. J. GOSSIP

Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 You, too, are called to be an open letter,...
A. J. GOSSIP

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respec...
J. A. KONRATH

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. KONRATH

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. KONRATH

It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. KONRATH

Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, t...
J. A. KONRATH

We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you ha...
J. A. KONRATH

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. KONRATH

E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper...
J. A. KONRATH

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publish...
J. A. KONRATH

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. KONRATH

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented peop...
J. A. KONRATH

I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever ...
J. A. KONRATH

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk co...
J. A. KONRATH

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. KONRATH

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher...
J. A. KONRATH

Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
J. A. KONRATH

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about ...
J. A. KONRATH

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi...
J. A. KONRATH

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on mess...
J. A. KONRATH

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything ...
J. A. KONRATH

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksel...
J. A. KONRATH

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will ...
J. A. KONRATH

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good...
J. A. KONRATH

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some go...
J. A. KONRATH

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
J. A. KONRATH

I play golf - badly.
J. A. JANCE

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also be...
J. A. JANCE

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of ...
J. A. JANCE

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical ...
A. J. MUSTE

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A. J. MCLEAN

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater,...
A. J. MCLEAN

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don...
A. J. MCLEAN

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to c...
A. J. MCLEAN

I shop more than most women.
A. J. MCLEAN

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
A. J. MCLEAN

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much ...
A. J. MCLEAN

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
A. J. MCLEAN

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
A. J. MCLEAN

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
A. J. MCLEAN

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
A. J. MCLEAN

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no sh...
A. J. MCLEAN

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't...
A. J. MCLEAN

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay w...
A. J. MCLEAN

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
A. J. MCLEAN

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
A. J. MCLEAN

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listenin...
A. J. MCLEAN

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
A. J. MCLEAN

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
A. J. MCLEAN

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the g...
A. J. MCLEAN

I have a great life and I'm super active.
A. J. LANGER

I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. LANGER

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
A. J. LANGER

You have to trust your body to take care of you.
A. J. LANGER

You can't be a victim and heal.
A. J. LANGER

It's sort of my job to feel good.
A. J. JACOBS

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
A. J. JACOBS

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. JACOBS

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. JACOBS

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. ...
A. J. JACOBS

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that w...
A. J. JACOBS

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restrictio...
A. J. JACOBS

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. JACOBS

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best....
A. J. JACOBS

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or h...
A. J. JACOBS

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
A. J. FOYT

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
A. J. FOYT

I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no ...
A. J. COOK

I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make...
A. J. COOK

It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of...
A. J. COOK

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
A. J. COOK

My husband and I are just really laid back people.
A. J. COOK

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I'v...
A. J. COOK

For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
A. J. COOK

'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an act...
A. J. COOK

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documen...
A. J. COOK

A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the ...
A. J. COOK

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. COOK

My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
A. J. BUCKLEY

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountain...
A. J. BUCKLEY

I was never really good in school.
A. J. BUCKLEY

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
A. J. BUCKLEY

I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be...
A. J. BUCKLEY

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... t...
A. J. BUCKLEY

I love '80s horror.
A. J. BOWEN

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. BOWEN

A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes th...
A. J. BOWEN

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budge...
A. J. BOWEN

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a ...
A. J. BOWEN

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
A. J. BOWEN

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial...
A. J. BOWEN

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. LIEBLING

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior...
A. J. LIEBLING

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
A. J. MUSTE

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
J A FROUDE

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. LIEBLING

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. MUSTE

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A. J. KITT

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.
A. J. FOYT

Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes.
A. J. FOYT

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. LIEBLING

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a pr...
J. A. DEVER

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibili...
A J TOYNBEE

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.
J. A. DEVER

There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
A. J. MUSTE

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. LIEBLING

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trus...
A. J. BALFOUR

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. LIEBLING

No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. AYER

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she op...
A. J. MCLEAN

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
A. J. MCLEAN

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
A. J. MCLEAN

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliabl...
A. J. LIEBLING

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your ...
A. J. LIEBLING

The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered accepta...
J. A. KONRATH

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoo...
A. J. MCLEAN

Keep your head up and be patient.
A. J. MCLEAN

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
A. J. MCLEAN

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
A. J. MCLEAN

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. P...
A. J. FOYT

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in...
A. J. LIEBLING

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
J. A. SPENDER

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a pr...
J. A. DEVER

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' T...
A. J. LIEBLING

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fi...
A. J. BALFOUR

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent moralit...
J A SPENDER

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality...
J. A. SPENDER

He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa...
A. J. PIERZYNSKI

The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th...
A. J. PIERZYNSKI

It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself.
A. J. KITT

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
A. J. MUSTE

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he fi...
A. J. LIEBLING

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the o...
A. J. LIEBLING

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
A. J. LIEBLING

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. LIEBLING

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol...
A. J. LIEBLING

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. LIEBLING

I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever.
A. J. PIERZYNSKI

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. LIEBLING

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible...
A. J. LIEBLING

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred...
A. J. LIEBLING

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I...
A. J. MCLEAN

If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i...
J. A. KONRATH

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t...
A. J. P. TAYLOR

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to...
A. J. P. TAYLOR

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. TAYLOR

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. TAYLOR

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t...
A. J. P. TAYLOR

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik...
A. J. P. TAYLOR

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. TAYLOR

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige...
A. J. P. TAYLOR

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. TAYLOR

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