Though we may reach the foremost heights of intellectual achievement, we will forever remain bound by the shackles of human nature and instinct.
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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.
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