I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.


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'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
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 Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The very Nazis look at you with wonde...
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
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
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