Favorite Quotes

Favorite Quotes

A coincidence is a miracle where God chose to stay anonymous. ~ Albert Einstein

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight. ~ author unknown

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. ~ J.M.L. Monsabre

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ~ C.S. Lewis

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Science can tell us how to do many things, but it can not tell us what ought to be done. ~ Author Unknown

Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western Civilization. Gandhi replied, "I think that it would be a very good idea..."

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. ~ Anonymous

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep

10% of conflicts is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to wrong tone of voice. ~ Vea Mariz

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ~ Martin Luther

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
~ Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb ~ George Orwell, 1946

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." ~ Albert Einsteins teacher to his father, 1895.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but at home ~ Robert Murray McSheyne

Medical science being applied: "If something is useless, more of it may be better."

My mama always said: 'Never pass up a good chance to shut up...'

My mama always said: 'To cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.'

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ~ Charles Austin Beard

Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. ~ Chinese proverb

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it...

GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings...

Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!!

Contentment begins where comparison ends.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~ Tom Robbins

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic. ~ Dan Rather

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it ~ Confucius

There's a certain kind of strength that comes from deep inside you when you can turn your "mess" into your message of hope... ~ Mike Malachefski

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. ~ James Rogers

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~ Socrates (BTW, I’m happy :-)

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone! ~ Neale Donald Walsch

"Science” is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. ~ Dr. Herbert Shelton

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ Ancient proverb

Life's tough, pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid. ~ John Wayne

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. ~ Chinese Proverb

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~ Albert Einstein

Everyone dies. The real question comes down to this: Have you really lived? ~ Unknown source

For some, it is easier emotionally to stop believing in God than to accept the existence of whatever evil has raped their life. ~ Pastor Tim Davis

Success is a great deodorant. ~ Elizabeth Taylor

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles Schulz

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ~ C.S. Lewis

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more...

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. :-)

Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other.

The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything… they make the best of everything

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~ Socrates

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ King Edward VIII

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car..

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. ~ Andrew Carnegie

It is a miracle when curiosity survives formal education...

A thought becomes action; action becomes habit; habit becomes character,
and character becomes destiny.
Thought is destiny...

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity… but not in that order. ~ Brian Pickrell

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. ~ Anthony Robbins

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back... ~ Charlie Brown

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~ William James

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. ~ Paul Harvey

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ~ Samuel Smiles

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. ~ Jean Sibelius

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Bible was never meant to fill us with head knowledge but to change our lives. ~ D.L. Moody

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