David W. Peters

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“This Massey, at a Communion this last Easter, having consecrated the bread after his manner, laid one hand upon the Chalice, and smiting his breast with the other, said to the parishioners— 'As I am a faithful sinner, Neighbours, this is my morning draught;' and turning himself round to them, said, 'Neighbours, here's to ye all!' and so drank off the whole cup full, which is none of the least.”
― Robert Aris Willmott, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, And Successors: A Biography

“And, indeed, if we consider how much of our lives is taken up by the needs of nature; how many years are wholly spent, before we come to any use of reason; how many years more before that reason is useful to us to any great purposes, how imperfect our discourse is made by our evil education, false principles, ill company, bad examples, and want of experience; how many parts of our wisest and best years are spent in eating and sleeping, in necessary businesses and unnecessary vanities, in worldly civilities and less useful circumstances, in the learning arts and sciences, languages, or trades; that little portion of hours that is left for the practices of piety and religious walking with God, is so short and trifling, that, were not the goodness of God infinitely great, it might seem unreasonable or impossible for us to expect of him eternal joys in heaven, even after the well spending those few minutes which are left for God and God’s service, after we have served ourselves and our own occasions.”
― Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living and Dying: Rules and Exercises for a Devout Life and a Peaceful Death