Tuesday, August 9, 2011

What Is Most Important for the Nation as Well as for the Individual

Yet another quote from my summer readings…



Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
“ It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas, useless enough. Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the

Sunday, August 7, 2011

“I Asked the Sea and the Deeps…”


This is more or less what I was trying to think while sitting beside a restless sea on a cloudy but pleasant August afternoon…

“ Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven and earth, and all that therein is, behold on every side they bid me love Thee; nor cease to say so unto all, that