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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

Bill Vaughan

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Sensible Sports
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHAN

High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
BILL VAUGHAN

Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Differences Issues Strong
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
BILL VAUGHAN

Kind Pedestrian Two
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
BILL VAUGHAN

Building Up Country Democracy
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
BILL VAUGHAN

Golf Sunday Views
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
BILL VAUGHAN

Clay Harden Same Sun
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Humor Law Moving
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHAN

Creative Giving Sublime
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Highest Long Men Race Respond
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN

Every Flattery Man Woman
What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
BILL VAUGHAN

Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful

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