This has got to be from Homer Simpson

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone.

Today’s Quote 8/13/07

JC Ryle
We are sadly apt to forget that there is a close connection between sin and sorrow, holiness and happiness, sanctification and consolation.  God has so wisely ordered it, that our well-being and our well-doing are linked together.  He has mercifully provided that even in this world it shall be man’s interest to be holy.

Happy they whose hearts can break

Oscar Wilde
    And thus we rust Life’s iron chain
        Degraded and alone:
    And some men curse, and some men weep,
        And some men make no moan:
    But God’s eternal Laws are kind
        And break the heart of stone.
 
    And every human heart that breaks,
        In prison-cell or yard,
    Is as that broken box that gave
        Its treasure to the Lord,
    And filled the unclean leper’s house
        With the scent of costliest nard.
 
    Ah! happy they whose hearts can break
        And peace of pardon win!
    How else may man make straight his plan
        And cleanse his soul from sin?
    How else but through a broken heart
        May Lord Christ enter in?
        …  (1854-1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol