“Remember, the road to success is always under construction.”
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
“We must not suppose that the appearance of the world is the same today as it was before sin.”
Martin Luther, quoted in Tom Holland Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World [as part of a discussion of growing interest in geology from the 16th century on, including clergymen both arguing for a young earth and using fossils etc. to prove it was old].
“I do not like to speak ill of any man but I strongly suspect yonder gentleman to be a lawyer.”
Samuel Johnson quoted without source in Tom Davey, For Whom the Polls Tell
“Il y a des méchants qui seraient moins dangereux s’ils n’avaient aucune bonté.”
Réflexions morales #284 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes
“THIS IS NOT YOUR PRACTICE LIFE”
Inspirational slogan painted over and over on the wall of an Ottawa Lululemon when I was there on December 21, 2025
“Sanctified people got more fire.”
Musician James Brown, who grew up in the flamboyant evangelical United House of Prayer for All People of the Church on the Rock of the Apostolic Faith, quoted in Tom Holland Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
“His jokes may be much worse in your opinion than they are in his opinion; but after all they must be jokes; they cannot be entirely shapeless mysteries, like many modern works of philosophy.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Sherlock Holmes” in A Handful of Authors, quoted in “Can’t You Take A Joke?” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)
“No wise man will wish to bring more long words into the world.”
G.K. Chesterton “The War of the Gods and Demons” in The Everlasting Man quoted in “Everlasting” in Gilbert! The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #4 (March/April 2024)