Quotes by Chaplains

There are no atheists in the foxholes.
William Thomas Cummings
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Walter Colton
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.
Walter Colton
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Walter Colton
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
Walter Colton
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.
Walter Colton
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Walter Colton
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
Walter Colton
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
Walter Colton
Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
Walter Colton
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.
Walter Colton
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
Walter Colton
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Walter Colton
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
Walter Colton
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Walter Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Walter Colton
It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
Kate Braestrup
The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
May the ears of Canada never grow deaf to the plea of widows and orphans and our crippled men for care and support. May the eyes of Canada never be blind to that glorious light which shines upon our young national life from the deeds of those "who counted not their lives dear unto themselves," and may the lips of Canada never be dumb to tell to future generations the tales of heroism which will kindle the imagination and fire the patriotism of children that are yet unborn.
Frederick George Scott
Whether you are a man or woman, make sure that you see the person that you are considering to build a relationship with for who they are, not what you want them to be.
Imam Khalid Latif
I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.
Kate Braestrup
There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace.
Lloyd John Ogilvie