Thursday, October 30, 2008

leading leaders

"in doing good to one scholar, you may do good to a whole parish or city."

Henry Wilkinson, Three Decades of Sermons, pt. 2, 78.

qtd. in Tyacke, The History of the University of Oxford, in reference to Oxford's nightly devotional and catechizing

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Nero, sit.

T.R. Glover, the British writer reminds us, that the day would come when we would name our cats Felix, our dogs Nero, and our sons Paul!

quoted by FF Bruce

Monday, October 06, 2008

purity of heart

Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.

- Augustine