“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”
“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
“I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”