Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.
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EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. EVELYN WAUGH [Change is] the only evidence of life. EVELYN WAUGH I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ... EVELYN WAUGH Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? EVELYN WAUGH ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy... EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all. EVELYN WAUGH No one is ever holy without suffering. EVELYN WAUGH The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ... EVELYN WAUGH If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ... EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old... EVELYN WAUGH Sweetheart. That's not the way you want to remember her. EVELYN THOMPSON Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play... EVELYN WAUGH The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m... EVELYN WAUGH A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another. EVELYN GLENNIE I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, c... JOHN EVELYN Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world. JOHN EVELYN Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to... JOHN EVELYN I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light. EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y... EVELYN WAUGH They tore the covers off our antique cars and our classic cars because I'm sure there was a cat on t... EVELYN HESTER Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. EVELYN WAUGH We have a good marker, non-invasively, and do see increased atherosclerosis -- also more plaque and ... EVELYN TALBOTT Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles EVELYN JIMENEZ Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i... EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge... EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t... EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra... EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit. EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes... EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl... EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official... EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. EVELYN WAUGH He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into... EVELYN FOX You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage. EVELYN KLEBERT