View Full Version : Notable Quotes
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It clearly means a tremendous amount of pressure coming out of the House then to go back on defence against terrorism. I think it means a real, real, real push for a pre-September 11 mentality. You know, these are people who oppose the extension of the Patriot Act.
--Rudy Giuliani
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
--Blaise Pascal
The mission of amusement produces no converts. The need of the hour for today's ministry is believing scholarship joined with earnest spirituality, the one springing from the other as fruit from the root. The need is BIBLICAL DOCTRINE, so understood and felt, that it sets men on fire.
--CH Spurgeon
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
--Dresden James
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
--Milton Friedman
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
--Mohandas Gandhi
CoreIssue
11-19-2006, 03:52 PM
God is not politcally correct, and neither am I.
Chrystalwuzhere
11-19-2006, 03:55 PM
You did what for how many cookies?
--Chrystal W. Here
CoreIssue
11-19-2006, 04:08 PM
You did what for how many cookies?
--Chrystal W. Here
:roflmbo:
The person who knows ’how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.
-- Diane Ravitch
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
--Blaise Pascal
When everyone agrees, somebody is not thinking.
--Gen. George S. Patton
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
--Mohandas Gandhi
We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed.
-- Leonard Ravenhill
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to do good. The Christian thinks any good he does come from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us...
--C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
---Albert Einstein
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
--Baruch Spinoza
Evil unchecked grows. Evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
Everyone ELSE is coming out of the closet; its about time the Church of Jesus Christ and Christians do the same thing!
--Tony Evans
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
--Eric Hoffer
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
– H.L. Mencken
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
--Archbishop Helder Camara
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
--John Calvin
When I die, I want to be a ghost. . . So I can continue to pester the bishops, priests and godless monks until that they have more trouble with a dead Luther than they could have had before with a thousand living ones.
--Martin Luther
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
--C.S. Lewis
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
--Blaise Pascal
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it.
--C.S. Lewis
Sacred Cows make the best hamburgers.
--Dresden James
Chrystalwuzhere
12-22-2006, 10:56 PM
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to do good. The Christian thinks any good he does come from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us...
--C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Ah, I really like this one! :nod:
Ah, I really like this one! :nod:
Chrystal:
Thanks for the attaboy, there are just so many inspirational quotes out there to share.
. . . I can keep this thread going indefinitely.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
--Frederick II
Jessie
12-24-2006, 09:36 PM
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it.
--C.S. Lewis
so many just dont get it...
keep em coming sid!:nod:
keep em coming sid!:nod:
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
--Herbert Spencer
You don't need to defend a Lion. You just need to let him out of his cage.
--C.S. Lewis
Jessie
01-06-2007, 08:49 PM
good to see ya sid, that last one is interesting.
The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ;
. . . she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world,
. . . building magnificent temples,
. . . and acquiring earthly power and wealth,
. . . and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.
--C. I. Scofield
Some people deny the Holocaust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_Remembrance_Day). Some people deny the existence of evil (http://members.aol.com/Relationshop/WhyArePeopleRude.html). Some people deny the existence of verbal abusers (http://members.aol.com/Relationshop/Definitions/verbal_abuse.html#Verbal_Abuser). Some people deny the reality of abuse victims (http://members.aol.com/Relationshop/Definitions/verbal_abuse_frames.html). Different denials, but the mental defect is the same.
-- J. E. Brown
The whole world is dividing itself into progressives and conservatives. The job of the progressives is to go on making mistakes. The job of the conservatives is to prevent those mistakes from being corrected.
--G. K. Chesterton
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
--Eric Hoffer
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
--Adolf Hitler
The doctrine of justification by faith is like Atlas: it bears a world on its shoulders, the entire evangelical knowledge of saving grace.
--James I. Packer
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
--Rev. Martin Luther
CoreIssue
02-12-2007, 07:25 PM
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
--Rev. Martin Luther
Good one!
I here once more repeat, what I have so often insisted on, that the Christian should direct his efforts toward understanding the so-called literal sense of the Scripture, which alone is the substance of faith and of Christian theology, which alone will sustain him in the hour of trouble and temptation, and which will triumph over sin, death, and the gates of hell, to the praise and glory of God.
--Rev. Martin Luther
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
--Mohandas Gandhi
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be in another world, but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God, I am what I am.
-– John Newton
The internet will set us free, it will open men’s minds to what is logical and what is illogical. Not everything written on the internet is factual. [Even I’ve fudged on occasions.] There’s enough diversity in what the readers are exposed to they can balance it all out and come to logical conclusions something not available through the national media.
--Ken Hughes (http://www.theconservativevoice.com/profile/405/Ken-Hughes.html)
I see many contradictory religions, and consequently all false save one. Each wants to be believed on its own authority, and threatens unbelievers. I do not therefore believe them. Every one can say this; every one can call himself a prophet. But I see that Christian religion wherein prophecies are fulfilled; and that is what every one cannot do.
-Blaise Pascal
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination.
— Andrew Lang
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
--John Wesley
Ponderin
03-13-2007, 04:18 PM
On turning 29...
Dear friend,
This week I turn 29.
It’s hard to believe. How time flies. January 22, 1973 seems like so long ago. I’m the oldest in my family. It’s a pretty big family, but I’ll explain that later.
If you’re a boomer, you probably don’t think much of my generation—Gen X. But that’s because we’re a threat to you! My generation is changing the world! Just think of all that has happened in the world these past 29 years...
The end of Vietnam. Watergate. Jimmy Carter. Actually, I don’t remember much from the 70s, since I was just entering elementary school when Ronald Reagan became president.
I loved the 80s. That’s when I grew up, but I had no idea just how much the world was changing.
Then, the Berlin Wall fell. I’ll never forget that day in November. 1989. I was 16 and on top of the world. I can remember my history teacher telling me that the world would never be the same. He was right.
Then, something even more dramatic developed. The Internet. If you want to understand me and my generation, then go online. When I was in college, a few of my friends saw it coming. We helped start a revolution online. And don’t believe it when they say the Internet bubble has burst. The only thing that has burst is the old way of doing business.
Now, I’m working on my third business startup—all before age 30. Not bad, eh? I got married three years ago, and we’re expecting our first child in three months. A new generation begins...
Except for one problem.
You see, I wasn’t actually born on January 22, 1973. In fact, I wasn’t born at all.
I never was given the chance to take even that first breath - never mind then 381 million breaths that would have followed over these 29 years.
Not a single breath.
That’s because of something else that happened on January 22, 1973.
Seven justices made a decision that would dramatically affect my life - and the lives of 40 million others who would never take a breath.
That’s my family. And it’s growing every day. In fact, in the next 24 hours the family of abortion victims will grow by about as many people who died when the Trade Center buildings collapsed.
The cleanup from 9/11 continues. And so does the cleanup from 1/22/73.
And to think it was all based on a lie. Jane "Roe" of Roe v. Wade was lied to. And so were you - if you believed even for a moment that the mass of tissue wasn’t a human life.
That mass of tissue was me!
My goal here isn’t to make you feel guilty. Rather, think of me - or what could have been me - the next time the topic of abortion comes up.
Think of me graduating from high school and going to college. Think of me getting married and having children. Think of me celebrating my birthday with family and friends.
Think of me turning 29.
Anonymous
A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
-- Dresden James
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), prophet
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Some 2,000 personnel from several countries, including France, United Kingdom, United States and Italy, had come to evacuate their expatriates and though they were stumbling on corpses, they remained firm in totally ignoring the catastrophe.
-- retired General Romeo Dallaire, former commander, UN mission in Rwanda.
DaimyoMateo
04-24-2007, 02:26 PM
"Only the fool says in his heart: There is no god. The wise says it to the world"
I've listened to talk show hosts drumming up the opposition by using this word 'amnesty' over and over and over again," she said. In her 15 years in the Senate, Feinstein said, "I've never received more hate or more racist phone calls and threats.
--Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on S 1348
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
Jessie
08-10-2007, 06:07 PM
You did what for how many cookies?
--Chrystal W. Here
humm CW..... :eek:
a.baker
08-11-2007, 05:36 PM
Remember those, that others have forgotten, so they don't slip through the cracks.
-me
As you walk in the path of light, watch out for any holes that you may create in need of construction. Look to God and He will give you the tools to fix it.
-me
Men that are wise from Gods Word, are wise. Men that are wise only from mans wisdom are foolish in the end.
-me
Looking to Him for happiness is joyous. Looking to anything else for happiness is sadness.
-me
Holding on to a sin is like being locked up in prison.
-me
a.baker
08-12-2007, 01:11 AM
This is one of my favorites! Luke 8:21
He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."
That just makes me leap for joy knowing that Jesus considers me as His sister!!! I just can't describe how wonderful that makes me feel. It literally puts tears of joy on my face.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
--James Feibleman
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
-- Henry David Thoreau
vBulletin® v3.8.2, Copyright ©2000-2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.