So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.


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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL
The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON
I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS
The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET
My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp...
CLARENCE THOMAS
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i...
DEBI THOMAS
Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS
#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS
Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN
The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS
I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL
My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
THOMAS TRAHERNE
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON