WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:56:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Foster, Randolph S. – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Foster, Randolph S. -- “Man a Spiritual Being,” Lecture 2, Chautauqua, New York (1878) https://wist.info/foster-randolph-s/67196/ https://wist.info/foster-randolph-s/67196/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:40:36 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=67196 When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do vou know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? — that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life?


Randolph S. Foster (1820–1903) American Methodist Episcopal bishop, preacher, educator
“Man a Spiritual Being,” Lecture 2, Chautauqua, New York (1878)
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