Poems List

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

The secret to life is: there is no secret.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.

I am alone. I can see nothing at all. For ten minutes, I am lost.

Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that country. This is why as ambassadors for Christ we beseech people to be reconciled to God by faith in Christ now. If they confess Him as Lord with a heart of faith--now, while the doors of salvation are wide open, they will be saved (Rom. 109,10). Later they are forced to confess His Lordship to vindicate Christ's righteous judgment of them and the worthiness of their eternal doom. Confession does not bring the confessor salvation. It is too late, for the 'accepted time' for salvation has forever passed.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

the Basil Spence Syndrome. When Coventry Cathedral was going up and in the public eye, he went through a lean period when he wasn't offered any jobs at all because people thought he wouldn't have time for anything else.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

I have three grandchildren – one girl and two boys. I'm a very doting grandmother. I think you're allowed to spoil when you're a granny, that's what grannies are for. In my house, chocolate biscuits are called "don't tell Dad" because that's what I say to them when they see the chocolate biscuits.

A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of Christ. 'Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and come forth they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation' (Jn. 528, 29).

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.