Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them...

Robertson Davies

The dog is a Yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a Yes-man.

The dog is a Yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a Yes-man.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized.  We make things happen to us.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Experience is wine, and art is the brandy we distill from it.

Experience is wine, and art is the brandy we distill from it.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Biography at its best is a form of fiction.

Biography at its best is a form of fiction.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.