Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
If you want to brighten up a person's day.Give them a rainbow.
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.