C.S. Lewis quotes:
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing yet had
been done.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in
spite of your changing moods.
I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack
Quotes by John Wesley:
Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in
all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as
long as ever you can.
Catch on fire with
Quotes by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world,
Jim Elliot, American Missionary who was martyred for the faith:
You wonder why people choose fields away from the States when young people at
home are drifting because no one wants to take time to listen to their
problems. I'll tell you why I left. Because those Stateside young people have
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870):
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
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Do you
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882):
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back
John Donne (1572-1631):
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent,
a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as
well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855):
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the
state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied
the last
few months. I foolishly attributed it to ee cummings instead of Markham. He
drew a circle My all time favorite and present day mantra.
Thanks
Stel
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From: Anne Follis
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than
other things do.
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a
market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast
foods -- or it should be an art, which is
Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian during WWII. One of
Hitlers last orders was to have Bonhoeffer put to death.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of
an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
The essence of optimism is
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got
dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out
once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great
dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an
Joy:
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow -
I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by
unrighteousness are to me
Victor Hugo (1802-1885):
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets
and frighten the horses.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor
and there is an invisible labor.
There is always more misery among the
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be
sorry.
I have never let schooling interfere with my education.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
A lie can travel halfway around
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, American pastor, educator, and theologian
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who
receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both
for this world and the next.
A man of a right spirit is not a
Yogi Berra
The game's not over until it's over.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to
yours.
80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.
If people don't want to come out to
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for
acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of
speech, because he didn't have any.
In religion and politics people's
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His
heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he
hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that.
That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights
as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God
and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and
lifted
Oh, these are just priceless! Thanks for my laugh of the day! I saw a long list
of Dan Quayle quotes onces that would make most of these speakers blush. Anyone
got more Dan Quayle quotes?
ELLY (SunniD) (MistyLeaf) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get
hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you
lose yours.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
I sit
Never complain and never explain.
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of
men.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by
quotations.
He is a self-made man, very much in
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and
narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the
contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. ~ Lord John Emerich Edward
Dalberg Acton
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount
Famous Quotes -
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always
cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
No man will ever bring out of
Children, I talks to God and God talks to me. I goes out and talks to God in
de fields and de woods. Dis morning I was walking out, and I got over de fence.
I saw de wheat a holding up its head, looking very big. I goes up and takes
holt ob it. You blieve it, dere was no wheat dare? I says,
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in
France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing
confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island,
whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and
forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that
never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~
Mark Twain
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served
the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~
Calvin Trillin
My mother would forgive
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in
the worst cell of all, oneself.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our
worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I
thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This
is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. ~ M. Cartmill
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's
relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the
window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If I were to wish for anything, I
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're
wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless
the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Oh, what a tangled web do
Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the
individual. ~ Homa Bahrami
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the
careers of those who work for him. ~ H. S. M. Burns
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career
Whenever I am unhappy, because men will not believe me in the things that I
say at God's bidding, I go apart and pray to God, complaining to him that those
to whom I speak do not easily believe me. And when I have made my prayer to
God, I hear a voice that says to me: Daughter of God, go on,
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That
world is gone.'
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and
existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
But who is to guard the
Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose
one's own way.
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human
existence, is he truly human or does he
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to
console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is
in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is
in dying that we are born to eternal life. ~ Attributed to
What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing. The quote at the end is can only
be appreciated when placed in context. Thank you for giving us the background.
This story is entirely new to me. What an amazing woman!
ELLY (SunniD) (MistyLeaf) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From another group...
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have
to say something.
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ~ Aristotle
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
~ Athenæus
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest
proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ~
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no
greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small
ones. ~ Phillips Brooks
The ideal life is in our blood
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try
reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for
women's names. ~ Elaine Gill
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing
them, was often a woman. ~
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child
wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love
from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is
unconditional. ~ George Herbert Walker Bush
Absence is to
Calvin: When I grow up, I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time
machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip
this dumb assignment.
Calvin: I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't
have paid for me.
Calvin:
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was an escaped slave who led many other slaves to
freedom. She was also a Civil War soldier and women's rights advocate.I had
reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to,
liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the
Rosa Parks is known as the woman who, in December 1955 in Alabama, refused to
give up her seat to a white man. Rosa Parks was arrested, and this arrest
triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and ignited the American civil rights
movement.
I would like to be known as a person who is
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense,
by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. ~ Joseph Addison
(1672-1719), English writer and statesman
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the
fault-finding of men. ~
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has
a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first
instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick
Calvin: That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that
it can't get worse.
Calvin: There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Calvin: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
again.
Calvin: There's an inverse relationship
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the
circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the
talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul. ~ Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, early suffragist
Love recieved and love given
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures
by the faculty of laughter. ~ Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
~ Edward Albee
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody
thinks he has a fever!
Our prayers lay the track down by which Gods power can come. Like a mighty
locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
With complete consecration comes
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and
praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light,
to witness and experience. Creativity is merely a plus name for regular
activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by
unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected
things, above all that we ask or think. Each time, before you Intercede, be
quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs
swiftness. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. When I see
the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles,
I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean
If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was
'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be
just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really
[McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and
probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits
singing about toilet paper. ~ Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people
Art
Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~ Elbert Hubbard
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and satirist, Part 2
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Every dog must have his day.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned
into.
Reason is a very light
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British Scholar Novelist; author of The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe, Part 5
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies
but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and satirist, Part 4
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the
suffering of other folks.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long
beards, and pretenses to foretell
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and satirist, Part 3
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one
grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his
country than the whole race of politicians put together.
A
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and satirist, Part 5
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue,
honesty, and religion.
Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but
Hugs, Part 2
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and
give them a hug : Heaven knows they need it. ~ Princess Diana
You cant hug your kids with nuclear arms. ~ Anonymous
Bush gave an interview and he said people will vote for him because
Hugs, Part 1
A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange
it. ~ Anonymous
We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for
maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth. ~ Virginia Satir
They invented hugs to let people
Happiness, Part 2
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far
more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events
themselves. ~ Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
Jay Leno
You cant stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
War continues in Iraq. Theyre calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were
going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells
OIL.
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Happiness, Part 1
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past
better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved
than it will be. ~ Marcel Pagnol
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or
Fyodor Dostoyevski, Russian writer, 1821-1881
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love,
and is the summit of love on earth.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect, will you
God, Part 1
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that
it is God who is shaking them. ~ Charles C. West
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~
Eleanor Powell
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be
God, Part 2
God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way. ~ Lieghton
Ford
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. ~ Mother
Teresa
We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are
wondering how painful the best
God, Part 3
True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door
in the face of God. ~ Charles L. Allen
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented
B.R. Ambedkar, Indian politician and founder of the Indian constitution
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant
needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Life should be great rather than long.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer, Part 2
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take
themselves seriously.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment
is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
What is
George Washington, 1732-1799, first U.S. President, Part 1
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it
is better to be alone than in bad company.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is
Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator, 1970-1952
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is
keep us out of war.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all
logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Samuel Johnson, English Poet (1709-1784), Part 1
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by
accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their
existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe
should be
Benjamin Franklin, American Statesman, 1706-1790, Part 1
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is that they don't
want to discourage it completely.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
How few there are who have courage enough to
Benjamin Franklin, American Statesman, 1706-1790, Part 2
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity,
will revolutionize the world.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more
difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing
Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 B.C., Part 1
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to
William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, Part 1
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I
can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and
not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way
Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 B.C., Part 2
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be
no war.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not
distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he
Grief, Part 1
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of
power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are
messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. ~ Washington Irving
No one ever told me that grief felt so like
George Burns, American Actor, 1896-1996
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be
a success at something you hate.
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian political scientist, 1805-1859, Part 4
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In
America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves
her
Adolph Hitler: positively chilling, and a reminder to never forget
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will
believe it.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but
only those who are passionate themselves can arouse
Virgil, Roman Poet, 70-19 B.C., Part 1
Love conquers all.
Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what
you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it
becomes spiritual in calling.
She nourishes the poison in her veins
Virgil, Roman Poet, 70-19 B.C., Part 3
Rumor grows as it goes.
Whither art thou rushing to destruction?
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Success feeds them; they can because it seems they can.
Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.
The gates of Hell are open
Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, English novelist; author of Frankenstein Part 2
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers,
that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of
temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to
Forgiveness, Part 1
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too
much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God
with me. ~ Saint Augustine
Some
Patrick Henry, 1736-1799, American patriot and orator The Constitution is not
an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument
for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives
and interests. It is natural for man to indulge in the
Forgiveness, Part 2
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out
of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.
Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which
Christopher Reeve
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the
ocean.
To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
A hero is an ordinary
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian philosopher and practitioner of non-violent
protest, Part 1
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my
anger, and as heat
H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, English Writer; author of War of the Worlds Part 2
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not
choke the fire they have lit.
The uglier a man's legs are,
Dorothea Dix, American Philanthropist Reformer (1802-1887)
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime
by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character;
and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest
but long enough to cover the essentials. ~ Ronald Knox
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. ~
David McKay
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good
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