Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

Be happy when people envy you, you are on the right path

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

Your words should be so strong that they affect every your intuition so that you can recognize what is real and heart.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Do what gives you bliss.

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Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.