Barry's Blog

"Most Americans tend to worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted. Their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them in repair, and their lifestyles resemble a cast of characters in search of a plot." -Gordon Dahl, from Work, Play, and Worship in a Leisure-Oriented Society 

"The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment."   -John Cheever 

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." -G.K. Chesterton 

"I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."                                                                                             -Mark Twain 

"The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors. They are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating."                           -H.L. Mencken 

 "He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart..." -C.S. Lewis, from Letters to an American Lady

 "To make a man a saint, grace is certainly needed, and anyone who doubts this does not know what a saint, or a man, really is." -Blaise Pascal, Pensees

For FinishingWell,

Barry Morrow