What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much towardrestoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousandyears to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are stillstanding in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mightyforests of the Sierra.

The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox 'pilgrims' and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane - not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.

That's who we are. We do not try to fool people.