The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
BILL VAUGHANThe more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
BILL VAUGHANThe work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
BILL VAUGHANOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
BILL VAUGHANWe didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
BILL VAUGHANThe Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHANEconomists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
BILL VAUGHANGod, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
BILL VAUGHANThe most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
BILL VAUGHANThe effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANThe tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHANThe best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
BILL VAUGHANWho grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
BILL VAUGHANDiscipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
BILL VAUGHANThe United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHANThere are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
BILL VAUGHANWalk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
BILL VAUGHAN