Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's. For, when we open the New Testament, it is to come upon whole companies of excited people, their faces all aglow, their hearts dazed and bewildered by the immensity of their own good fortune. Apparently they find it difficult to think of anything but this amazing happening that has befallen them; quite certainly they cannot keep from laying almost violent hands on every chance passer-by, and pouring out yet once again the whole astounding story. And always, as we listen, they keep throwing up their hands as if in sheer despair, telling us it is hopeless, that it breaks through language, that it won't describe, that until a man has known Christ for himself he can have no idea of the enormous difference He makes. It is as when a woman gives a man her heart; or when a little one is born to very you; or when, after long lean years of pain and greyness, health comes back. You cannot really describe that; you cannot put it into words, not adequately. Only, the whole world is different, and life gloriously new. Well, it is like that, they say.
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LIEBLING I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fi... A. J. BALFOUR 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent moralit... J A SPENDER 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality... J. A. SPENDER He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa... A. J. PIERZYNSKI The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th... A. J. PIERZYNSKI It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself. A. J. KITT Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it A. J. MUSTE The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he fi... A. J. LIEBLING It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the o... A. J. LIEBLING The way to write is well, and how is your own business. A. J. LIEBLING I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. A. J. LIEBLING Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol... A. J. LIEBLING An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. LIEBLING I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever. A. J. PIERZYNSKI Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. LIEBLING The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible... A. J. LIEBLING Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred... A. J. LIEBLING I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I... A. J. MCLEAN If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i... J. A. KONRATH Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t... A. J. P. TAYLOR Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to... A. J. P. TAYLOR A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. A. J. P. TAYLOR Nothing is inevitable until it happens. A. J. P. TAYLOR Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t... A. J. P. TAYLOR He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik... A. J. P. TAYLOR Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. TAYLOR In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige... A. J. P. TAYLOR No war is inevitable until it breaks out. A. J. P. TAYLOR