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“I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.”
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“God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.”
Source : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.131, Bantam
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“My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.”
Source : Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.
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“Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.”
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“The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.”
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“With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.”
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“When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.”
Source : "Desiderata" (1927)
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“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”
Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678
