The Wish I Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.

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WISH I SAID THAT… 6

We welcome your comments. However, the first person to complain, is the first volunteer to make it right."
source unknown via Evelyn McLachlan

Being a pro-war Christian is like being a vegan who eats hamburgers.
Molly Wolf

With love, even the rocks will open.
Hazrat Inayat Khan via Mary in the Middle East

WISH I SAID THAT… 7

Grace is receiving what we do not deserve. Mercy is not receiving what we do deserve.
source unknown, via someone identified only as Sharon

I dreamed dreams and saw visions of myself furiously typing out my sermon from the pulpit while those in the pews read it on their lap tops
Dan Stacey

The skill of writing [and preaching] is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

WISH I SAID THAT… 8

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers via Evelyn McLachlan

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire via Rob Thomas

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.
Conrad Hyers

WISH I SAID THAT… 9

It is the duty of the clergy to feed the sheep and not to amuse the goats.
W. Maltby via Evelyn McLachlan

I awake in the morning, torn between a desire to save the world, and a desire to savour the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
E.H. White via Rod Collins

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant

WISH I SAID THAT… 10

Ring the bells that still can ring!
            Forget your perfect offering!
            There is a crack in everything.
            That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

A ripple of laughter is worth a flood of tears.
Source unknown via
                        "Mary from the friendly country of Oman"

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Source unknown