Unsorted Quotes, Devotional Bits, "Good 'uns," and
Beloved Bible Passages
I really, really, really will get these organized someday!!
1. We should mind humiliation less if we were humbler. (CS Lewis)
2. Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and
dance. (Oprah Winfrey)
3. A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Murray
Hopper)
4. Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. (CS Lewis)
5. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. (John D.
Rockefeller)
6. There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to
be a purely spiritual creature. That is why he used material things like bread and
wine to put new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God
does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. (CS Lewis)
7. You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even
reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting
yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. (Plato)
8. Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity.
Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don't be impressed
with charisma; look for character. (Matthew 7:15)
9. We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying
to read it as if it were very good and ended by discovering that we were paying
the author an undeserved compliment. (CS Lewis)
10. It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. (Garrison Keillor)
11. In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You
can't get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you
refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God's part. (Matthew 6:14-15
MSG)
12. Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and
belief, your body fills up with light. 23 If you live squinty-eyed in greed and
distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what
a dark life you will have! (Matthew 6:22 MSG)
13. Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a
performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't
be applauding. (Matthew 6:1 MSG)
14. It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Bishop Richard Cumberland)
15. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours
and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root. (CS
Lewis)
16. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love
for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it
is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at
whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him. (CS Lewis)
17. God touched Jacob's strength (the thigh muscle is the strongest in the body) and
turned it into weakness. From that day forward, Jacob walked with a limp so he
could never run away again.
If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk
with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. (Rick Warren)
18. Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop
traffic. (Vance Havner)
19. God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is
drawn to people who are weak and admit it. (Rick Warren)
20. The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. (Albert
Schweitzer)
21. In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give
up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others..... Thus we
become free to be compassionate. (Henri Nouwen)
22. And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the
servant life. (Matt. 5:41 MSG)
23. 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
you ever can. (John Wesley)
24. Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
downstairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain)
25. If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it
doesn't matter who criticizes me. (John Bunyan)
26. Holy living consists of doing God's work with a smile. (Mother Teresa)
27. Hence, nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and
love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. (CS Lewis)
28. For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by
others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. (Rita Mae Brown)
29. If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single
meal pass without sharing it in some way. (Buddha)
30. God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience
circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality!
Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that
opportunity. (Rick Warren)
31. Don't give up, grow up. (Rick Warren)
32. If you look at the world you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be
depressed. But if you look at Christ you'll be at rest (Corrie ten Boom)
33. Everything that happens to a child of God is Father-filtered, and He intends to use
it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad. (Rick Warren)
34. When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him
and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
(Joni Eareckson Tada)
35. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. (Seneca)
36. Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds
water. (Swedish Proverb)
37. Sadly, a quick review of many popular Christian books reveals that many
believers have abandoned living for God's great purposes and settled for personal
fulfillment and emotional stability. that is narcissism, not discipleship. (Rick
Warren)
38. How could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one
day or one year to come back — if we did not know that every day in a life fills
the whole life with expectation and memory? (CS Lewis)
39. If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger — we need a
reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted
once again.
40. Disillusionment with our local church is a good thing because it destroys our false
expectations of perfection. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
41. He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself
becomes a destroyer of the latter. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
42. People don't care what we know until that know that we care. (Anonymous)
43. Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. (Rick
Warren)
44. The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There
is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. (Thomas Bailey)
45. I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that
night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see
what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will
accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on
his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to
a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in
every direction for a chance of escape? (CS Lewis)
46. We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of
opinions that we loathe. (Oliver Windell Holmes)
47. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course, as long
as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. (CS Lewis)
48. Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like
radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap...
crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world....
(Hugh Elliott)
49. While there are illegitimate parents, there are no illegitimate children. (Rick
Warren)
50. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done" and
those to whom God says, "All right then, have it your way."
51. For this is the end of all the stores.... But for them it was only the beginning of the
real story. All thier life in this world... had only been the cover and the title page:
now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the great Story, which no one on
earth has read, which goes on foever and in which every chapter is better than the
one before. (CS Lewis)
52. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (Matthew
Henry)
53. Christians should carry spiritual green cards to remind us that our citizenship is in
heaven. (Rick Warren)
54. All that is not eternal is eternally useless (CS Lewis)
55. When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry.
When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation
(Rick Warren)
56. It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters. (Mother
Teresa)
57. No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
(Leon Wieseltier)
58. We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved: we are, as
Newman said, rebels who must lay down our arms. (CS Lewis)
59. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without
hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (George
Sand)
60. Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever
talked to by God and his messengers. (Brenda Ueland)
61. One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling
healthy after we have been sick. (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
62. The possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can
meet. When souls become wicked they will certainly use this possibility to hurt
one another; and this, perhaps, accounts for four-fifths of the sufferings of men.
(CS Lewis)
63. When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry J. Kaiser)
64. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to
laugh either. (Golda Meir)
65. I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. (Leona
Helmsly)
66. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
(Samuel Goldwyn)
67. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to
distrust him and show your distrust. (Henry L. Stimson)
68. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children. (Rick
Warren)
69. Unless you assume a God, the questiohn of life's purpose is meaningless.
(Bertrand Russell)
70. Hell is a state of mind...and every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of
the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven
is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.
For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains. (CS
Lewis)
71. Underpromise; overdeliver. (Tom Peters)
72. If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as
your neighbor. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas)
73. What is to give light must endure burning. (Viktor Frankl)
74. The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. (CS Lewis)
75. Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin)
76. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires
brains. (Mary Pettibone Poole)
77. Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. (Mike Ditka)
78. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow)
79. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure: try to please everybody all the time. (Herbert Bayard Swope)
80. If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved,
but to be coped with over time. (Shimon Peres)
81. Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of
personal growth. (Peter McWilliams)
82. For human beings, you need two hugs a day to survive, four hugs for
maintenance, six hugs to grow. (Virginia Satir)
83. If somebody hugs you, you know you must be there or they'll go through you.
(Leo Buscaglia)
84. Never forget that we are all still "the early Christians." The present wicked and
wasteful divisions between us are, let us hope, a disease of infancy; we are still
teething. (CS Lewis)
85. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is
a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin
but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee)
86. Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for
what sort of man he is? ... If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see
them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it
only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the
provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man: it only shows me what an illtempered man I am.(CS Lewis)
87. If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. (Yugoslav Proverb)
88. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing
daily acts of trivia. (Unknown)
89. I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than
someone who likes me but is a ninny. (Sam Donaldson)
90. Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you,
somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so
deeply within you that you cannot believe it. (Margaret Cho)
91. One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. (CS Lewis)
92. [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken
collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.(Napoleon Bonaparte)
93. I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a
fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and
then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also
allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. The reward of a thing well done
is to have done it. (Ophrah)
94. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. (Anne Frank)
95. Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal
state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. (Anton Chekhov)
96. Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God (Anonymous)
97. One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two
people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the
world. (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)
98. For the Church has no beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; He does not
find, but makes her, lovely. (CS Lewis)
99. Don't argue with an idiot. People watching might not be able to tell the difference.
(Anonymous)
100.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or
falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. (CS Lewis)
101.
Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of the
victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies. (CS Lewis)
102.
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is
when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. (Dave Meure)
103.
It is very strange that the years teach us patience — that the shorter our
time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor)
104.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. (Helen Hayes)
105.
Sin will take you farther than you ever thought you'd stray
Sin will leave you so lost, you think you'll never find your way
Sin will keep you longer than you ever thought you'd stay
Sin will cost you more than you ever thought you'd pay
106.
If you would judge of the lawfulness or the unlawfulness of pleasure, then
take this simple rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of
your conscience, obscures your sense of God, and takes off the relish of spiritual
things — that to you is sin. (Susannah Wesley)
107.
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. (CS
Lewis)
108.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are
condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of
something else. (Jane Austen)
109.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought
in our life, or in the life of another. (Helen Keller)
110.
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we
bring to experience. (CS Lewis)
111.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
(Abraham Lincoln)
112.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is
without trouble. (Carl Jung)
113.
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
(Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003)
114.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese
Proverb)
115.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute
damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started
with. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
116.
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers
or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you
need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad
hops of their own. (Real Live Preacher)
117.
Make your choice, adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the
danger, or wonder 'till it drives you mad, what would have happened if you had.
(CS Lewis)
118.
When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame,
family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our
common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are.... Only
when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't. (Diane Frolov and Andrew
Schneider — Northern Exposure)
119.
Life is full of obstacle illusions. (Grant Frazier)
120.
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.
(Charlotte Bronte)
121.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert
Einstein)
122.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with
inward peace and harmony. (Seneca)
123.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do,
then do it. (Anonymous)
124.
Never let your inferiors do you a favor — it will be extremely costly. (H.
L. Mencken)
125.
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all
apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature
turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find
comfort somewhere. (Jane Austen)
126.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread,
remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
127.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to
work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. (W. Somerset
Maugham)
128.
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let
go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to
make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded
sidewalk. It's your move. (Real Live Preacher)
129.
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by
submitting to it. (Les Brown)
130.
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
(Shinichi Suzuki)
131.
It took me as long to acquire inhibitions as others (they say) have taken to
get rid of them. That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the
modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
(CS Lewis)
132.
...that is very like the problem of all of us: to dress our souls not for the
electric lights of the present world but for the daylight of the next. The good dress
is the one that will face that light. For that light will last longer. (CS Lewis)
133.
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart:
Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as
you think they do. (Julie Morgenstern)
134.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to
the town gossip. (Will Rogers)
135.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was
no time left to you. (Lisa Alther)
136.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of
happiness. (Bertrand Russell)
137.
I have always had a kind of longing for death.... It was when I was
happiest that I longed most. (CS Lewis)
138.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be,
we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. (CS Lewis)
139.
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit
to fail thrice. (Minna Thomas Antrim)
140.
Far better things lie ahead than anything we leave behind. (CS Lewis)
141.
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only
the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. (Lois
McMaster Bujold)
142.
Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress. (CS Lewis)
143.
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. (Leon
Tec)
144.
If you don't risk anything you risk even more. (Erica Jong)
145.
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up
being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. (Brittany
Murphy)
146.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
147.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous patience. (Hyman Rickover)
148.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
(Elizabeth Bowen)
149.
Any community's arm of force — military, police, security — needs
people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only
the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the
slide into atrocity. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
150.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of
things. (T. S. Eliot)
151.
It has all been very interesting. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words,
1762)
152.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
(Plutarch)
153.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the
mind is never new, fresh, innocent. (Krishnamurti)
154.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is
not there. There is no such thing. (CS Lewis)
155.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
156.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a
thousand miles from the corn field. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
157.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
(Aristotle)
158.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. (Greg Evans)
159.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. (W. Somerset Maugham)
160.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.(Jean Giraudoux)
161.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your
learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the
hours, but give the time when you are asked. (Lord Chesterfied)
162.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set
yourself on fire. (Reggie Leach)
163.
I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity
seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and
virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a
glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a
joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror
is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything.
They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it
comes. But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world.
No one's eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of people's eyes can see further
than mine. (CS Lewis)
164.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. (Dr. Thomas Fuller)
165.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the
world. (Helen Keller)
166.
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write
something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. (Jesse Stuart)
167.
You only live once — but if you work it right, once is enough. (Joe E.
Lewis)
168.
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little
decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest
good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later,
you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial
indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or
bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
(CS Lewis)
169.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not
understand. (Leonardo da Vinci)
170.
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold)
171.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere — even starting to slip backward —
we may actually be backing up to get a running start. (Dan Millman)
172.
It is not our abilities that determine our success in life, it is the choices we
make. (Albus Dumbledore, JK Rowling)
173.
...the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given
— nay, cannot even be imagined as given — in our present mode of
spatiotemporal experience. This desire was, in the soul, as the Seige Perilous in
Aruthur's castle, the chair in which only one could sit. And if nature makes
nothing in vain, the One who sits in the chair must exist. (CS Lewis)
174.
If anybody really wants to know him [Satan] better I would say to that
person, "Don't worry. If you really want to, you will. Whether you'll like it when
you do is another question." (CS Lewis)
175.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods. (Aristotle)
176.
What you cannot enforce, do not command. (Sophocles)
177.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the
man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You
must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a
madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him
and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (CS Lewis)
178.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to
render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. (Margaret Fairless
Barber)
179.
...never, here or anywhere else, let us think that while anthropomorphic
images are a concession to our weakness, the abstractions are the literal truth.
Both are equally concessions; each singly misleading, and the two together,
mutually corrective. (CS Lewis)
180.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the
greatest grace. (John Dryden)
181.
There's a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound
good. (Anonymous)
182.
Courage is being scared to death — but saddling up anyway. (John
Wayne)
183.
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. (Theodore Parker)
184.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. (Arthur
Hays Sulzberger)
185.
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on
your shoulders. (Bob Moawad)
186.
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what
he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the
kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be
there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in "the High Countries." (CS Lewis)
187.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by
why and how we do it. (Sharon Salzberg)
188.
The ancestor of every action is a thought. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
189.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used
up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming — "WOW — What a Ride!"
(Anonymous)
190.
There are still some fundamentalist separatists around, but most
evangelicals, whether within their denominations or not, move rather blithely in a
pattern (or in the chaos of) ad hoc witness and activity (e.g., "parachurch") that
pays little attention to historical confessional definition. (Martin Marty)
191.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy
will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end 'Thy will be done.' All that
are in Hell, choose it. (CS Lewis)
192.
One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like
the Jewish [for] two reason: (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine;
and (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously
good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all
real charity and faith. (CS Lewis)
193.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position
falls, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
194.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish
the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age
of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you
can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts
was rising in you. (Agatha Christie)
195.
For both the seed and the soul, there is need for patience. Growth can
seldom be forced in nature. Whether it is producing a tree or a human personality,
nature unfolds its growth slowly, silently. (Morton Kelsey)
196.
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to
relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. (Dr. Joyce
Brothers)
197.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and
often more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. (CS Lewis)
198.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves. (Carl Jung)
199.
Think of yourself just as a seed, waiting patiently in the earth — waiting
to come up a flower in the Gardener's good time — up into the Real world, the
Real waking. I suppose that all our present life, looked back on from there, will
seem but a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow
is coming. It is nearer now than when I began this letter. (CS Lewis)
200.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He
didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)
201.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
(Thomas Carlyle)
202.
I dont like generalisms such as 'the Germans' or 'the Americans.' I am of
the opinion that there are no 'bad' peoples, only individuals or groups of
individuals who can be either good or bad. Even 'bad' peoples have good things
about them, and 'good' peoples have 'bad' things about them. The truth is never
black and white. It is somewhere between. (Dr. Karl-Wolfgang Daum)
203.
It is terrible to find how little progress one's philosophy and charity have
made when they are brought to the test of domestic life. (CS Lewis)
204.
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner
promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression
for our temperament and our gifts. (Georges Rouault)
205.
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. (Denise
Levertov)
206.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to
have them. (John Updike)
207.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try
to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You
don't give up. (Anne Lamott)
208.
Joy is not in things; it is in us. (Richard Wagner)
209.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. (John Lancaster
Spalding)
210.
(Two prayers for aging grace)
Hallow our lives.
Bring us home. (Carole Stoneking)
211.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. (Benjamin Franklin)
212.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond
what you were. (Cherie Carter-Scott)
213.
A full cup must be carried steadily. (English Proverb)
214.
Christ did not teach and suffer that we might become, even in the natural
loves, more careful of our own happiness. If a man is not uncalculating towards
the earthly beloveds whom he has seen, he is none the more likely to be so
towards God whom he has not. We shall draw neared to God, not by trying to
avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accpeting them and offering them
to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. (CS Lewis)
215.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
(William Blake)
216.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. (Amos Bronson
Alcott)
217.
Quotations are true levelers.
They give, to all who will faithfully use them, the spiritual presence of the best
and greatest of the human race.
218.
Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)
219.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take us or spare us. (Marcel Proust)
220.
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. (Matthew Trump)
221.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. (Seneca)
222.
The challenge of death comes to us all, and no one can die for another.
Everyone must fight his own battle with death by himself, alone. ... I will not be
with you then, nor you with me. (Martin Luther)
223.
Joy is prayer.
Joy is strength.
Joy is love.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. (Mother Teresa)
224.
Time is:
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve;
Too short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is Eternity. (Henry Van Dyke)
225.
God, give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. (Thomas H.
Huxley)
226.
Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work. (Aristotle)
227.
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? (L. M. Montgomery)
228.
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly
delightful. (Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay)
229.
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming
more concentrated. (Paulette Bates Alden)
230.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
(William Saroyan)
231.
I see no sin committed but that I might have committed it. (Anonymous)
232.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. (Sir Francis Bacon)
233.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
234.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
235.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited
energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order
imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. (Norman Podhoretz)
236.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it. (Theodore Roosevelt)
237.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. (Robert
Louis Stevenson)
238.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in
everything that's necessary for believing in it. (Ugo Betti)
239.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to
appear favored by the gods. (Maxine Hong Kingston)
240.
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. (Al Franken)
241.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more
of it than the next man...It is the comparison that makes you proud; the pleasure of
being above the rest. (CS Lewis)
242.
You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try, Sometimes You
Find You Get What You Need. (Mick Jagger)
243.
Exeperience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
244.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy
making mistakes and becoming superior. (Henry C. Link)
245.
The defination of a rut is: a grave with both ends knocked out of it.
(Anonymous)
246.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested in anything, you never
have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely
interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
247.
If you punish out of love instead of anger, you'll never love it, and if you
never love it, you'll avoid it whenever possible. (Andrew Peterson)
248.
I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a
Christian, has the idea of an exam, or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of
real Christianity is to blow that idea into bits. (CS Lewis)
249.
Old age ain't no place for sissies. (Bette Davis)
250.
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible
warning. (Catherine)
251.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not
dumb ... and I'm also not blonde. (Dolly Parton)
252.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a
career. Gloria Steinem)
253.
Everyone there (heaven) is filled with what we should call goodness as a
mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it
anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking a t the source
from which it comes. (CS Lewis)
254.
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
(Noah Porter)
255.
Affection, as distinct from charity, is not a cause of lasting happiness. Left
to its natural bent affection becomes in the end greedy, naggingly solicitous,
jealous, exacting, timorous. (Lewis)
256.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. (Henri-Frédéric
Amiel)
257.
There's nothing meaner than a Christian when he is mean. (J. Vernon
McGee)
258.
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a
rumor around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. (CS
Lewis)
259.
I never feel age.... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
(Louise Nevelson)
260.
If you don't find quantum physics to be bewildering, you don't really
understand quantum physics. (Niels Bohr)
261.
There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the
devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel
an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. (CS Lewis)
262.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are
made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. (Rita Mae
Brown)
263.
Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Anonymous)
264.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
(Samuel Johnson)
265.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes
you well. (Dan Rather)
266.
Holding onto fear and other assorted emotional baggage is much like
holding onto a 20 pound watermelon; you can't get close enough to someone to
give them a good hug. (Po Bronson)
267.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Lillian
Hellman)
268.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer.
Then there's never more than one. (CS Lewis)
269.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
(Confucius)
270.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the
life that is waiting for us. (Joseph Campbell)
271.
The average teenager in America watches 21 to 29 hours of TV per week.
The average [father] spends seven minutes a week with his kids. (Walt Larimore)
272.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be,
we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. (CS Lewis)
273.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Dr.
Laura Schlessinger)
274.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every on know that
you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. (James
A. Garfield)
275.
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you
will die for! (Howard Hendricks)
276.
I believe there are five measurements of spiritual growth: knowledge,
perspective, conviction, skills, and character. These five levels of learning are the
building blocks of spiritual maturity. (Rick Warren)
277.
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. (Anonymous)
278.
It's a social and political system rooted in mavericks, innovation, risktaking, open intellectual argument, impatience, creative change, failure, the
frontier spirit, competition, and a compulsion to get ahead. (Daniel Henninger)
279.
I look at the world upside down, as God does. Instead of seeking out
people who stroke my ego, I find those whose egos need stroking; instead of
important people with resources who can do me favors, I find people with few
resources; instead of the strong, I look for the weak; instead of the healthy, the
sick. Is not this how God reconciles the world to himself? (Philip Yancey)
280.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the
man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You
must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a
madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him
and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (CS Lewis)
281.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He
didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)
282.
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a
formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. (Herbert Bayard Swope)
283.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly
mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single
stubbornness. (Louise Erdrich)
284.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli)
285.
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the
water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. (CS Lewis
— Out of the Silent Planet)
286.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterwards. (Vernon Sanders Law)
287.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above
morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)
288.
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
(Jefferson Davis)
289.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
(Henry Kissinger)
290.
No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up
each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered ' by the time we reach
home, but the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes in
the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It
is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us: it is the very sign of His
presence. (CS Lewis)
291.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only
for a few hours daily. (Arthur Brisbane)
292.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth. (Evan Esar)
293.
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's
door. (Thomas Secker)
294.
One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience's mind the
question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not
because it is true but because it is good....You have to keep forcing them back,
and again back, to the real point. (CS Lewis)
295.
The reason quiet time is so difficult is because whenever we have a quiet
time, the only person we have to deal with is ourselves. (Anonymous)
296.
Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. (Anonymous)
297.
If you add a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.
(Hesiod)
298.
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this
secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. (Voltaire)
299.
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. (Publilius
Syrus)
300.
Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself
does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment — even to death.
If one had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give
yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is, therefore, in my opinion, perfectly
right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill
an enemy ... I imagine somebody will say, 'Well if one is allowed to condemn the
enemy's acts, and punish him, and kill him, what difference is left between
Christian morality and the ordinary view?' All the difference in the world ...
Remember, we Christians think man lives forever. Therefore, what really matters
is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are
going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or hellish creature. We may kill if
necessary, but we must not hate and enjoy hating. We may punish if necessary,
but we must not enjoy it. In other words something inside us, the feeling of
resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must simply be killed.
(CS Lewis)
301.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for
the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace)
302.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life —
is the source from which self respect springs. (Joan Didion)
303.
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for
security. (Norman Vincent Peale)
304.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
and steady dedication of a lifetime. (Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.)
305.
...those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.... (Franklin)
306.
There is more truth said in jest than in truth. (Shakespeare)
307.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. (CS
Lewis)
308.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. (Robert Fripp)
309.
More and more clearly one sees how much of ones's philosophy and
religion are mere talk: the boldest hope is that concealed somewhere within it
there is some seed however small of the real thing. (CS Lewis)
310.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. (John Wayne)
311.
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to
use. (Wendell Johnson)
312.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
313.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me. (Robert A. Heinlein)
314.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. (Somerset
Maugham)
315.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't
thought of yet. (Ann Landers)
316.
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are
political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and
schizophrenia. (George Orwell)
317.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of
it. (Helen Keller)
318.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. (Harriet Lerner)
319.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather
than for illumination. (Andrew Lang)
320.
To please God...to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness...to be loved
by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a
father in a son — it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our
thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. (CS Lewis)
321.
I don't sleep with married men, if you want to know. But I certainly have.
I did a lot of stuff before I got sober that I wouldn't do anymore. But there wasn't
a single thing that I'd do that Jesus would say, "Forget it, you're out. I've had it
with you, try Buddha!"
322.
Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say
a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)
323.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take us or spare us. (Marcel Proust)
324.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which
peers out in sleep. (Socrates)
325.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
326.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a
day. (Elbert Hubbard)
327.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The
moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows,
we guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. (Agnes de
Mile)
328.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding
each other. (Eric Hoffer)
329.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West)
330.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of himself. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
331.
Remember when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if
you listen you may learn something. (Amish saying)
332.
A person who lives for himself never knows the real joys of life. (Amish
saying)
333.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the
world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you
forget this errand. (Woodrow Wilson)
334.
A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the
Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for
nearly two millenia — which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more
strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains as such gnats as
the feeding of the multitudes — if offered to the uneducated man can produce
only one or other of two effects. It will make him a Roman Catholic or an atheist.
(CS Lewis)
335.
An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette)
336.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But
it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them
astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. (Richard
Feynman)
337.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. (Kimberly Johnson)
338.
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you
know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?' (Johann K.
Lavater)
339.
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of
certainty. (Leon Wieseltier)
340.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson)
341.
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your
vision. (Hsi-Tang)
342.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in
your pocket! (Will Rogers)
343.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything
you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (E.W. Howe)
344.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a
buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and
loses itself in the sunset. (Crowfoot)
345.
Showing people that you sincerely care about them can often be as easy as
listening to them. (Brian Koslow)
346.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the
work. (Mark Twain)
347.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or
stairs. (Joan Welsh)
348.
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our
bodies. (Ken Wilbur)
349.
Cultivate a healthy cynicism and you will have no trouble distinguishing
the weeds from the vegetables in your garden, and your yield will be plenty.
(Jozef Wroblewski)
350.
We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never
honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap
the altar of the Future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.
(Screwtape Letters)
351.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. (Oliver Wendell
Holmes)
352.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly
because it means you don't have to try. (Peggy Noonan)
353.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. (Seneca)
354.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
(William Blake)
355.
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find
out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us
occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew my
temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to
knock it down. (CS Lewis)
356.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. (Gregg Easterbrook)
357.
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. (French saying)
358.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of
the world. (John Muir)
359.
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. (Ellie Katz)
360.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
(African Proverb)
361.
The only way I think I could thank God is by doing kind things to the
people who need me now for I understand what it means to be desparate and
lonely. (Magnolia Pitiquen)
362.
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph
in a cause that will ultimately fail. (Woodrow Wilson)
363.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest
coward like everybody else. (Umberto Eco)
364.
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for
thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If
thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect
to mold another in conformity to thy will? (Thomas a Kempis)
365.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since
you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas á Kempis)
366.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. (Don Wilder and
Bill Rechin)
367.
Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us. (Mike Wickett)
368.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that
some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly
jumbled in everyday affairs. (Christopher Morley)
369.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. (William
James)
370.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. (Sir Walter Scott)
371.
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are
already made. (Anonymous)
372.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
(Michelangelo)
373.
You unlock the door with the key of imagination... (Rod Serling
374.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon)
375.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. (Paulo Freire)
376.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not
giving it. (William Arthur Ward)
377.
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans
have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of
thanksgiving. (H.U. Westermayer)
378.
. . . making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and
keeping promises to others. (Stephen Covey)
379.
Health is not simply the absence of sickness. (Hannah Green)
380.
If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the
time. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
381.
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it.
Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going
broke. (Brendan Francis)
382.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too
many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only
thing that's wrong is to get caught. (J.C. Watts)
383.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverb)
384.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and
virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus T. Cicero)
385.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
386.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not
something you do in your spare time. (Marion Wright Edelman)
387.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who
can do nothing for him. (James D. Miles)
388.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by
the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the
objects it loves. (Carl Jung)
389.
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever
magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip
gestation. (Jacques Barzun)
390.
The best armor is to keep out of range. (Italian Proverb)
391.
Government is, abstractedly taken, an evil, a usurpation upon the private
judgment and individual conscience of mankind. Society is produced by our
wants, and government by our wickedness. (Jefferson, 1796)
392.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do. (Anonymous)
393.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
(George Santayana)
394.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a
nuisance to the world. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
395.
The world of dogmatic Christianity is a place in which thousands of
people of quite different types keep on saying the same thing, and the world of
'broad-mindedness' and watered down 'religion' is a world where a small number
of people (all of the same type) say totally different things and change their minds
every few minutes. We shall never get re-union with them. (CS Lewis)
396.
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
(Chinese Proverb)
397.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his
goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (W. W.
Ziege)
398.
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy
and strong. The amount of work is the same. (Francesca Reigler)
399.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone
puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. (Malcolm X)
400.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
(John D. Rockefeller)
401.
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
(Mary H. Waldrip)
402.
The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who
thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. (Hasidic saying)
403.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost)
404.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage
— pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the
way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. (Stephen Covey)
405.
Probably the most honest 'self-made man' ever was the one we heard say:
'I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every
step of the way.' (James Thom)
406.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen
Parr)
407.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
(Japanese Proverb)
408.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
(Jane Addams)
409.
If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets,
lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job,
you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Ursula Le Guin)
410.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for
love of it. (Henry David Thoreau)
411.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich
Nietzsche)
412.
[In regard to the varying effectiveness of different kinds of placebos],
capsules containing colored beads are more effective than colored tablets, which
are superior to white tablets with corners, which are better than round white
tablets. Beyond this, intramuscular saline injections are superior to any tablet but
inferior to intravenous injections. Tablets taken from a bottle labeled with a well-
known brand name are superior to the same tablets taken from a bottle with a
typed label. My favorite is a doctor who always handled placebo tablets with
forceps, assuring the patient that they were too powerful to be touched by hand.
(Max Velmans)
413.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for
carving out peaceful tomorrow's. One day we must come to see that peace is not
merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. How much longer must
we play at deadly war games before we heed the plaintive pleas of the
unnumbered dead and maimed of past wars? (Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
414.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. (Nan
Fairbrother)
415.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well
knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind.
(Cleveland Amory)
416.
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps
him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. (Carl Van Vechten)
417.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
(Albert Schweitzer)
418.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Isaac Newton)
419.
The heart has its reasons of which the reason knows nothing.... It is the the
heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God
perceived by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal)
420.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart..... Forgiveness saves the expense
of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Hannah More)
421.
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been
defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him
from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat
reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly—but then
perhaps also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree (Miguel
de Unamuno)
422.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked
through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They
may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can
be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose
one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Viktor
Frankl)
423.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source
from which self-respect springs. (Joan Didion)
424.
You read about all these Terrorists—most of them came here legally, but
they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now,
compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people
are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration. (Anonymous)
425.
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
(George Bush)
426.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of greatest
complexity; can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be
such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have
delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others,
and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
(Tolstoy)
427.
Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
(Anonymous)
428.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions
of dollars given in a humiliating way. (Gamal Abdel Nasser)
429.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. (AnneSophie Swetchine)
430.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
(Calvin Coolidge)
431.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. (Will Rogers)
432.
How, then, it may be asked, can we ... avoid [God]? ...in our own time and
place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of
thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health
and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. (CS
Lewis)
433.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
434.
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of
good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick
yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. (Evelyn Underhill)
435.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like
hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
436.
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could
compensate for it. (Lawana Blackwell)
437.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the
truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's
wrath. (Kahlil Gibran)
438.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing
itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any
moment. (Marcus Aurelius)
439.
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges
them by their moral choices...Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in
fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are
really worse than those whom we regard as fiends (CS Lewis)
440.
Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, man is not aware that higher
reasoning exists. He classes his own mental processes as being of the same sort as
the genius of Einstein. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.
(RA Heinlein)
441.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. (Henry
Ford)
442.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a
student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your
life. (Henry L. Doherty)
443.
Easy reading is damned hard writing. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
444.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk
less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. (Swedish
Proverb)
445.
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in
a single orange. (A.K. Ramanujan)
446.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and
the heart — and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
(Karl von Bonstetten)
447.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if
you do not trust enough. (Frank Crane)
448.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin)
449.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (Spanish Proverb)
450.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. (Harry Truman)
451.
Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight L.Moody)
452.
[We] have no government armed with power capable of contending with
human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made
only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other. (John Adams)
453.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of
proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the
same size. (Mark Twain)
454.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
(Orson Card)
455.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by
yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. (Plato)
456.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what
we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)
457.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a
mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000
training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? (Thomas J.
Watson)
458.
We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. (Anaïs Nin)
459.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number
of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother
Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. (H. Jackson
Brown, Jr.)
460.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries. (A.A. Milne)
461.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love
anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want
to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an
animal. Wrap it carefully round with little hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of selfishness. But in that
casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it
will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy,
or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven
where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is
Hell.
I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God's
will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness? We shall draw nearer to
God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting
them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts
need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so
be it. (CS Lewis)
462.
The day that microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they
make vaccum cleaners. (Curry Muncher)
463.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching. (Satchel Paige)
464.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're
not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. (Arthur C Clarke)
465.
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect. (Arab proverb)
466.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a
pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind.
(Albert Schweitzer)
467.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like
expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. (Dennis Wholey)
468.
If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as
well start laughing now. (Anon)
469.
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." (John Brunner)
470.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not
forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned
up, so that it never can be shown against one. (Henry Ward Beecher)
471.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark
Twain)
472.
I know why dog is god spelled backward. They love with every ounce of
their being. (Carolyn Shafer)
473.
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our
prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and
all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so
paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off
our knees for the rest of our lives. (Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston
College)
474.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the
better designedly. (Francis Bacon)
475.
Our only security is our ability to change. (John Lilly)
476.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are
indispensable. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
477.
Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich.
(Scottish proverb)
478.
If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said
and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry
to God for their ministers had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their
humble, fervent, and incessant prayers for them, they would have been much
more in the way of success. (Jonathan Edwards)
479.
It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed. (Keith Duckworth)
480.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not
being right. Mario Cuomo)
481.
I don't put anything in writing. If it's important enough, you shouldn't, and
if it is not important enough, why bother? (Ditta Beard)
482.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time . . .. What's tough is being good
every day. (Willie Mays)
483.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
discussion. (Plato)
484.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. (Ausonius)
485.
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is
when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. (Dave Meurer)
486.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
(George E. Woodberry)
487.
Jealousy is the greatest of all sufferings, and the one that arouses the least
pity in the person who causes it. (Paul De Gondi)
488.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread
with one, and a lily with the other. (Chinese Proverb)
489.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes
heroes. (Benjamin Disraeli)
490.
. . . if you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should
go away and write a book about it. (Lord Brabizon)
491.
Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and supreme
call for Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray.... Let
there be prayer at sun-up, at noon day, at sundown, at midnight, all through the
day. Let us all pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes.
Let us pray for our churches. Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the
word, 'concern' for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love,
for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion.
Let prayer be our practice. (General Robert E. Lee)
492.
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.
(Calvin Coolidge)
493.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual
magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our
way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish
argument. (George Sand)
494.
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the
necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,
self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness
is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. (George Sand)
495.
About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our
position is more delicate. Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity
to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really
just society would be a major disaster. (CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters)
496.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what
you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary
only pours over the side of a brimming mind. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
497.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend
it once. (Lillian Dickson)
498.
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own. (William Orville
Douglas)
499.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence
for what sort of man he is? ... If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see
them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it
only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the
provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man: it only shows me what an illtempered man I am. (CS Lewis)
500.
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go
down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But
having a baby — there isn't any comparison. (Chris Evert Lloyd)
501.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
502.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in longdrawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'make things go' and
creates confidence. (Anne O'Hare McCormick)
503.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol)
504.
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way. (Milton Lomask)
505.
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. (Douglas
McArthur)
506.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize
how obvious they've been all along. (Madeleine L'Engle)
507.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one
degree below your means. (Sir Henry Taylor)
508.
A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind
and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we
pray only as well as we live. (A. W. Tozer)
509.
Avoid all disrespect to or contempt of the religion of the country and its
ceremonies. Prudence, policy, and a true Christian spirit will lead us to look with
compassion upon their errors without insulting them. While we are contending for
our own liberty, we should be very cautious of violating the rights of conscience
in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to
him only in this case they are answerable. (George Washington)
510.
You have put together many notes. But they lack ... legato. Simplicity is
the final accomplishment—and the most difficult. (Chopin, in the movie
Impromptu)
511.
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
(Rita Mae Brown)
512.
Look at this rose. You can see its beautiful colors, you can enjoy its
fragrance—but it still has thorns. If you want to, you can press them into your
flesh until you bleed. Thoughts are like that.... (Marjorie Holmes)
513.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best
known in heaven. (Nicolas Caussin)
514.
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do
not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about
remedying them—every day begin the task anew. (Saint Francis de Sales)
515.
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do
something for others — something for which you get no pay but the privilege of
doing it. (Albert Schweitzer)
516.
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around
the world were discussing whether any one belief was unique to the Christian
faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had
different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other
religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time
until C. S. Lewis wandered into the room. "What's the rumpus about?" he asked,
and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity's unique
contribution among the world's religions. In his forthright manner, Lewis
responded, "Oh, that's easy. It's grace."
517.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)
518.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the
temper of the sufferer. (Joseph Addison)
519.
Postmodern is akin to a new longuage: using personal experience,
community living, and storytelling as a better means of sharing the truth—Jesus
Christ, according to John 14:6—with an upcoming generation. (Kent Clayton)
520.
A decade ago, the eminent theologian Michael Novak argued that Western
liberal democracy is like a three-legged stool. Political freedom is the first leg,
economic freedom the second, and moral responsiblity the third. Weaken any leg,
and the stool topples. (Charles Colson)
521.
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone,
Arizona. It says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is
the greatest epitaph a man can have — When he gives everything that is in him to
do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I
have tried to do. (Harry S Truman)
522.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make
a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy
is to distrust him and show your distrust. (Henry L. Stimson)
523.
Success is relative: it is what we can make of the mess we have made of
things. (T.S. Elliot)
524.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. (Mignon
McLaughlin)
525.
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. (Thomas H. Huxley)
526.
The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as
the monk who prays — not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps
but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian
duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because
God is interested in good craftsmanship. (Martin Luther)
527.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of
it. (Helen Keller)
528.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking
you in the seat of the pants. (Walter Winchell)
529.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
(Tallulah Bankhead)
530.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of
truth. (Blaise Pascal)
531.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
(Albert Einstein)
532.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing
it. (Lord Macaulay)
533.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions
about us. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
534.
Whoever only speaks of God, but seldom to God, easily leases body and
soul to idols. The Christian thus places his whole future in jeopardy by a stunted
prayer life. (Carl F.H. Henry)
535.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be
happy, practice compassion. (Dalai Lama)
536.
Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)
537.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
(Soren Kierkegaard)
538.
Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Anonymous)
539.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible
summer. (Albert Camus)
540.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one
who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other
is mere business. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
541.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that
completely. (Ugo Betti)
542.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye,
and you will be drawn toward it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
543.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of
ourselves. (William Hazlitt)
544.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the
art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest — never vicious or cruel.
Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of
equal partnership. (Ann Landers)
545.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why
should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? (Epicurus)
546.
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most
beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)
547.
Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. (George
Boas)
548.
Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?
(Anonymous)
549.
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both. (John Andrew Holmes)
550.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is
without trouble. (Carl Jung)
551.
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you
have. (Kathleen A. Sutton)
552.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that
the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who
makes no demands on himself. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
553.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
(Henry Kissinger)
554.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle
of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher)
555.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved
in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls
the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. (Heard in a
neuropsychology classroom)
556.
Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to
opportunity and success. (Burt Lawlor)
557.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (Benjamin
Franklin)
558.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a
secret from the person who fails. (Robert Half)
559.
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
(Yogi Berra)
560.
God gave us two ends — one to sit on and one to think with.
Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose.
(Anonymous)
561.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln)
562.
Be a fountain, not a drain. (Rex Hudler)
563.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something
to be happy. (Mahatma Gandhi)
564.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to
market. It depends chiefly on two words, INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY; i.e.,
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he
can honestly and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted) will certainly
become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to Whom all should look for a
blessing on their honest endeavors, doth not in His wise Providence otherwise
determine. (Benjamin Franklin)
565.
I am praying that you will find a steady and reliable source of income
commensurate with your needs and stretching your great talent. (Dan Shafer)
566.
Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years in prison for
preaching the gospel. Although his captors smashed four of his vertebrae and
either cut or burned 18 holes in his body, they could not defeat him. He testified,
"Alone in my cell, cold, hungry, and in rags, I danced for joy every night."
567.
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it
on others. (Marcel Proust)
568.
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be
getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait
for them to self destruct. It never fails. (Richard Rybolt)
569.
I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known
hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not
inwardly burn? (2 Cor. 11:27, 29)
570.
When I go aside in order to pray, I find my heart unwilling to approach
God; and when I tarry in prayer my heart is unwilling to abide in Him. Therefore I
am compelled first to pray to God to move my heart into Him, and when I am in
Him, I pray that my heart remain in Him. (John Bunyan)
571.
Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity.
(Chuck Swindoll)
572.
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and
abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep
getting a busy signal — and soon they'll forget my number. (Edith Armstrong)
573.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be
done at all. (Peter Drucker)
574.
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. (Daniel Considine)
575.
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Oliver
Wendell Holmes)
576.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors
are favorable do nothing. (William Feather)
577.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere. (Agnes Repplier)
578.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a
knotted oak. (William Congreve)
579.
I will not gratify the Devil by being discouraged. (Spiros Zhodiates)
580.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
(Margaret Bonnano)
581.
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who
has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. (Ben Azai, Mishna)
582.
As we move forward from Sept. 11, let us not simply focus on the future
in an effort to forget the past. Let us remember who we were on Sept. 10 and the
event that changed all that. Let us use our darkness to become people of deeper
character, faith and love. This will thwart our enemies and honor our lost loved
ones in a way no memorial or tribute ever could. (Lisa Beamer)
583.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. (Buddha)
584.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find
the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela)
585.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is
demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker)
586.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius)
587.
Humor is a rubber sword — it allows you to make a point without drawing
blood. (Mary Hirsch)
588.
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm
rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions
in the United Nations. (Ron Dentinger)
589.
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
(Rabindranath Tagore)
590.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. (African Proverb)
591.
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self
worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. (Elizabeth
O'Connor)
592.
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. (Leo Aikman)
593.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
(Jimmy Johnson)
594.
A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed
"I am but dust and ashes." On the other, "For my sake was the world created."
And he should use each stone as he needs it. (Anonymous Rabbi)
595.
Truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme, but in both extremes.
(Charles Simeon)
596.
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by
keeping them both and keeping them both furious. (G.K. Chesterton)
597.
In times of desolation, we must never make a change but stand firm and
constant in the resolutions and determination in which we were the day before the
desolation or in the time of the preceding consolation. (Ignatius Loyola)
598.
If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusin, and disorder
from one's life, there is no point in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with
Jesus of Nazareth. (Horace Greeley)
599.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no
one to blame. (Erica Jong)
600.
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed
to someone else. (Ivern Ball)
601.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
(Charles Buxton)
602.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. (Daniel
Auber)
603.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot)
604.
Exercising faith in the present means trusting God to work through the
encounter before me despite the background clutter of the rest of my life. As the
recovery movement has taught us, our very helplessness drives us to God. (Philip
Yancy)
605.
Sometimes a light surprises
The Christian while he sings.
It is the Lord who rises
With healing in his wings. (William Cowper)
606.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. (Sir
Richard Francis Burton)
607.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to
understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars
in broad daylight. (Vaclav Havel)
608.
I do not get to know God, then do His will; I get to know Him more
deeply by doing His will. (Philip Yancey)
609.
In order to arrive at what you are not you must go through the way in
which you are not. (TS Eliot)
610.
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the
courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. (Anonymous)
611.
Consciousness is a specific biological product of the brain. A computer
program simulating the brain would no more be able to be conscious than a
program simulating digestion would be able to eat a pizza. (John Sedarle)
612.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots
gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Epictetus)
613.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one
does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. (Erich
Fromm)
614.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. (Carl Jung)
615.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. (Peter Marshall)
616.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in
opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because
you differ from yourself ten years ago. (Horace Mann)
617.
Once, when I asked an elderly friend if she regretted not having had
children, she responded in her characteristically forthright manner. "It was the
great tragedy of my life." Each life must hold one, I think: one pain that
overarches and obscures all others, one haunting irreversible fault for which one
can never atone (Nancy Mairs)
618.
God does not make our lives all shipshape, clear, and comfortable. Never
try to get things too clear. Religion can't be clear. In this mixed-up life there is
always an element of uncearlness. I believe God wills it so. There is always an
element of tragedy. How can it be otherwise if christianity is our ideal? (Baron
Friedrich von Hugel)
619.
Suffering is surely good or bad only according to the results it produces.
Had it been a bad thing in itself, the Son of God would not have taken it for us
chosen instrucment for the cure of the world.... I do not mean by this that we
should lessen our attempts to alleviate pain and remove the causes of distress, for
such is the simple duty of charity; I only mean that what we cannot remove is not
wasted (R. Somerset Ward)
620.
And who's to say which is more incredible — a man who raises the dead
... or a God who weeps (Ken Gire)
621.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night
anyway. (Mary C. Crowley)
622.
Coincidences are spiritual puns. (G.K. Chesterton)
623.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity,
nothing else matters. (Alan Simpson)
624.
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood
all the motives which produced them. (Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
625.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't
matter and those who matter don't mind. (Dr. Seuss)
626.
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all
over the road. (Bumper sticker)
627.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things
tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and
of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a
number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that
they should burn none at all. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
628.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a
witness. (Margaret Millar)
629.
Two monologues do not make a dialogue. (Jeff Daly)
630.
The business of a cathedral is to offer praise to God day in and day out,
seven days a week. "Some people say it's best when there's nobody here at all," he
said, "just the choir, the angels, and the snow outside." He smiled, "I'm not quite
so other-worldly as that. I like to have a few people come. (Tim Stafford,
interviewing N.T. Wright)
631.
Theology is marginal for the church today because it can't offer spiritual
nurture to people. If it could reclaim spiritual nurture as one of its tasks, theology
might be able to help the church instead of having to be warded off by the church.
(Ellen Charry)
632.
Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite
joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in
the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the
sea. We are far too easily pleased. (CS Lewis)
633.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson)
634.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe)
635.
But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
... Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep. (William Shakespeare)
636.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. (Henry David Thoreau)
637.
Government is, abstractedly taken, an evil, a usurpation upon the private
judgment and individual conscience of mankind. Society is produced by our
wants, and government by our wickedness. (Jefferson)
638.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I
declare him my enemy. (Proudhon)
639.
It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon
the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the
Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed
whose God is the Lord. (Abraham Lincoln)
640.
Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus
exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive
dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced
(ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than truth itself. (Irenaes)
641.
Justice of the Peace (to bride who teaches linguistics): Do you take this
man to be your lawful wedded husband in good times or in bad? Bride (after brief
pause): In good times.
642.
Food peppers everyday speech to such an extent that it's practically
unavoidable. We fish for compliments, beef about injustice, butter up the powers
that be, and ham it up to get a laugh. A pretty woman's a hot tomato, a brainy
student's an egghead, a muscled he-man is beefcake, and a coward is just plain
chicken. We table discussions, tap sources, cook up new ideas, pull down menus
on our computer screens, and offer recipes for success. We toast the bride and
groom, roast our fellows at honorific dinners, cajole people who are slow as
molasses to wake up and smell the coffee, act cool as a cucumber when we get
caught with our hands in the cookie jar, and turn beet red when we are obliged to
eat our words. (Edythe Preet)
643.
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble
acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. (John
Adams)
644.
God has no religion. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
645.
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was
founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel
of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded
asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. (Patrick Henry)
646.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Wherefore,
let thy voice rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better
than sheep or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God,
they lift not hands of prayer both for themselves and those who call them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every way bound by gold chains about the feet of
God. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
647.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. (Annie Dillard)
648.
I read an article that said the way to achieve inner peace is to finish things
I have started. Today I finished two bags of potato chips, a chocolate pie, a bottle
of wine and a small box of chocolate candy. I feel better already! (Anonymous)
649.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
(Chinese proverb)
650.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (Chinese proverb)
651.
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all
people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we
have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall
be made a story and a byword throughout the world. (John Winthrop, Governor of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
652.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)
653.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
654.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. (Albert
Schweitzer)
655.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the
whole world. (Immanuel Kant)
656.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
(Salvador Dali)
657.
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we
really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before
a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we
are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the
thing that we ask of Him. (Dr. R.A. Torrey)
658.
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State
over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of
the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to
entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow-citizens of
the United States at large, and particularly for brethren who have served in the
field; and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do
justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and
pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our
blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these
things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. (George Washington)
659.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John
Galsworthy)
660.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as
something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. (Albert Schweitzer)
661.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good
from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. (Abraham
Lincoln)
662.
May the strength of God pilot us, may the power of God preserve us.
May the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us.
May the way of God direct us, may the shield of God defend us.
May the host of God guard us against the snares of the evil one, against the
temptations of the world. (St. Patrick)
663.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in
answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but
wings. (Phillips Brooks)
664.
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led
our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country
flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy
with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to
whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so
enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their
measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to
you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations. (Thomas Jefferson)
665.
Prayer is not the mystical experience of a few special people, but an
aggressive act.... an act that may be performed by anyone who will accept the
challenge to learn to pray. (Jack Hayford)
666.
Paul Harvey RIDDLE:
When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to
17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich
need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?
667.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Kahlil
Gibran)
668.
People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet
reserve. (John Miller)
669.
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish
their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)
670.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us
than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. (John Bunyan)
671.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always
blows a storm. (Euripides)
672.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the
strength for their tasks by going to their knees. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
673.
Prayer does not need proof, it needs practice. (William Evans)
674.
Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children.
(Anonymous)
675.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into
flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for
those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer)
676.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. (Sean
O'Casey)
677.
Lord, take me where You want me to go;
Let me meet who you want me to meet;
Tell me what You want me to say, and
Keep me out of Your way.
(Found in the pocket of the Fire Department chaplain who died inteh World Trade
Center attack.)
678.
Be patient and wait for the Lord to act. (Psalms 37:7 Good News)
679.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his
enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)
680.
heteronym (HET-uhr-uh-nim) noun
A word that has the same spelling as another word but with a different
pronunciation and meaning.
Listen, readers, toward me bow.
Be friendly; do not draw the bow.
Please don't try to start a row.
Sit peacefully, all in a row.
Don't act like a big, fat sow.
Do not the seeds of discord sow.
681.
capitonym (KAP-i-toh-NIM) noun
A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.
Job's Job
In August, an august patriarch
Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
Long-suffering Job secured a job
To polish piles of Polish brass.
Herb's Herbs
An herb store owner, name of Herb,
Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
It would have been so nice in Nice,
And even tangier in Tangier.
682.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
(Norman Vincent Peale)
683.
A full cup must be carried steadily. (English proverb)
684.
America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of
safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I
think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side. (Ronald Reagan)
685.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious
harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and
boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world
commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and
heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her
genius and power. America is great because she is good and if America ever
ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
686.
A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is
poured out. Prayer is the soul's traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His
Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer. (T. Watson)
687.
We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we
stop playing. (Anonymous)
688.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
You have to catch up with it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
689.
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the
Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it
would be literally-I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to
figure what that loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all
the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the
standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise
ourselves. (President Theodore Roosevelt)
690.
The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race.
(Nellie Hershey Smith)
691.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
As praises from the men,
whom all men praise. (Abraham Cowley)
692.
Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you
need, and you don't want to have what you don't need. (Charan Singh)
693.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must
act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. (Goethe)
694.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an
angry heart. (Thomas Fuller)
695.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
(Voltaire)
696.
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. (Matt Cartmill)
697.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. (Logan
Pearsall Smith)
698.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
(Calvin Coolidge)
699.
God works in mysterious ways,
His wonders to perform.
He plants his footsteps on the sea
And rides upon the storm.
700.
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition,
no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she
sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to
which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine
origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. (Calvin
Coolidge)
701.
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs
our vision. (Anonymous)
702.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of
it. (Thomas Jefferson)
703.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. (John F. Kennedy)
704.
I question myself more than anyone I know. Some might consider this a
weakness, but I believe it is one of my greatest strengths. (Marilyn vos Savant)
705.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for
want of courage to shake the tree? (Logan Pearsall Smith)
706.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later
on. (Frederic Chopin)
707.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. (James A.
Garfield)
708.
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which
can be done to man, I know of none more precious. (William Hale White)
709.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and
the heart — and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
(Karl Viktor von Bonstetten)
710.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two. (Norman
Douglas)
711.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got.
(Alain — Emile August Chartier)
712.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or
nothing, about it. (Olin Miller)
713.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
(Eric Hoffer)
714.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. (Thomas Fuller)
715.
You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney)
716.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. (Bob Dylan)
717.
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. (Jacques Chardonnes)
718.
Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries. (Voltaire)
719.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and
looks like work. (Thomas Edison)
720.
I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for
anything else. (Josh Billings)
721.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the
whole Encyclopedia Britannica. (Stephen Leacock)
722.
Never lend books — nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in
my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France)
723.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like
these. (Paul Harvey)
724.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times
and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."
How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in
the depths of affliction! (Abraham Lincoln)
725.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. (Duke Ellington)
726.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the
chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As
everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to
keep body and soul together. (Bette Davis)
727.
You can never solve a problem at the level at which it was created. You
have to go to at least one level beyond." (Albert Einstein)
728.
The awareness of dying for something great and noble, strips death of its
absurd character. Not only for those who die, but those who survive (Ignance
Lepp)
729.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a
terrible resolve. (Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto)
730.
An eye for an eye and the whole world ends up blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)
731.
...I am moved by notions that are curled around this image and cling to the
notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing... (T.S. Eliot)
732.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin)
733.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie
Prudden)
734.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care
for. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach)
735.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel
like it. (Alistair Cooke)
736.
Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
(Moliere)
737.
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what
the failing person doesn't like to do. (Donald Riggs)
738.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. (Marcus
Aurelius)
739.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state
from mere excess of comfort. (Charles Dickens)
740.
It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of
character to adhere to it when discovered. (Christian Bovee)
741.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the
other direction. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
742.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a
man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. (Josh Billings)
743.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
(Abraham Lincoln)
744.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. (Louis
L'Amour)
745.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs —
jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)
746.
Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would
carry us through them. (Brendan Francis)
747.
Do not be deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never in greater danger than
when a human being, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our enemy's
will, looks out on a world from which every trace of him has vanished, asks why
he bas been forsaken, but still obeys. (CS Lewis)
748.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the
danger '— but recognize the opportunity. (Richard M. Nixon)
749.
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. (Mitzi Chandler)
750.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children.
Life is the other way around. (David Lodge)
751.
Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)
752.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable
to sit still in a room. (Blaise Pascal)
753.
Oftentimes excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault the worse by th'
excuse. (William Shakespeare)
754.
Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
(William A. Irwin)
755.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is
my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
756.
It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that
But to be angry with the right person
to the right extent
and at the right time
and with the right object
and in the right way
that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. (Aristotle)
757.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing
to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
(Katherine Mansfield)
758.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an
habitual sense of humor. (Thomas W. Higginson)
759.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. (Paul
McCartney)
760.
The Bell Labs team, whose scientific results appear in today's issue of the
British journal Nature, determined that it is theoretically possible to send
approximately 100 terabits of information, or roughly 20 billion one-page e-mails,
simultaneously per strand of fiber.
761.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the
more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more
insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
(Thomas Merton)
762.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've
got. (Art Buchwald)
763.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe to do.
(Galileo Galilei)
764.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one
phrase: make use of suffering. (Henri Frederic Amiel)
765.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we
have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain. (Diane De Pottiers)
766.
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being
broke is a temporary situation. (Mike Todd)
767.
It's good to have activities in which you become totally immersed. The
fact that you have to focus your mind completely on the task at hand is
enormously relaxing, because it doesn't allow you to think about any of your
problems while you're doing it. (Dr. Al Aho, Bell Labs)
768.
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health — enjoy it when
good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an
extreme necessity. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
769.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
770.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom
we cannot resemble. (Samuel Johnson)
771.
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. (Bret
Harte)
772.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the
quality it should have. (Leonardo da Vinci)
773.
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
(Voltaire)
774.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. (John Stuart
Mill)
775.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor
to find talk or discourse, but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)
776.
My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else. (Woody Allen)
777.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it. (Edith Wharton)
778.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
(James Thurber)
779.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
780.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily
some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
781.
I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest.
The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in
church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. (Mrs. Robert
A. Taft)
782.
To conclude — you must translate every bit of your Theology into the
vernacular. This is very troublesome and means that you can say very little in half
an hour, but it is essential. It is also of the greatest service to your own thought. I
have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into
uneducated language, then your thoughts are confused. (CS Lewis)
783.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of
gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Samuel Johnson)
784.
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations
beautiful from minds profound — if I can remember any of the damn things.
(Dorothy Parker)
785.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought. (Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi)
786.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already
committed breakfast with it in his heart. (CS Lewis)
787.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal)
788.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
789.
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense — the starkest Madness. (Emily Dickinson)
790.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind
was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. (Henry S. Haskins)
791.
When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did
before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Cliff Fadiman)
792.
This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of
the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite
common for people to throw up at board meetings. (Jane Wagner)
793.
You can't, in most things, get what you want if you want it too
desperately; anyway, you can't get the best out of it. (CS Lewis)
794.
Men who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes)
795.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends
everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all
that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. (John
Lennin)
796.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
(Margaret Atwood)
797.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.
(Jules Renard)
798.
Change your thoughts and you change your world. (Norman Vincent
Peale)
799.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid
undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. (Socrates)
800.
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some
people are ready to change and others are not. (James Gordon, M.D.)
801.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at
present. (English Proverb)
802.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)
803.
They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it,"
not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that
agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me but have this
and I'll take the consequences" little dreaming how damnation will spread back
and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. (CS Lewis)
804.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. (Jules Renard)
805.
Pride, the never failing vice of fools. (Alexander Pope)
806.
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a
little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. (J. D. Salinger)
807.
I quote others only the better to express myself. (Michel de Montaigne)
808.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate
his capacities. (Goethe)
809.
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big
to pass through are our friends. (Arlene Francis)
810.
I know some good marriages — marriages where both people are just
trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
(Erica Jong)
811.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar Watson
Howe)
812.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
813.
There is very little difference between people, but that little difference
makes a big difference. (Anonymous)
814.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker)
815.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
(Felix Frankfurter)
816.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from
a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than
weakly right.' (Tallulah Bankhead)
817.
No change in circumstance can repair a defect in character. (Emerson)
818.
Without discipline, there's no life at all. (Katharine Hepburn)
819.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing
itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any
moment. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
820.
Nothing makes you feel better than a really sad song. (Garrison Keeler)
821.
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. (Shirley
MacLaine)
822.
If you're having trouble starting a conversation talk about movies.
Everyone you meet either likes or dislikes or has never seen everything! (Pam
Hansen)
823.
You saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his
son.... (Deut. 1:31)
824.
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to
last as long as life. (Queen Christina, of Sweden)
825.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know
what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Seneca)
826.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of
the wise. (Samuel Lover)
827.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
(Anonymous)
828.
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
(Michael Arlen)
829.
It is not enough to posses wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having
too much. (Andre Maurois)
830.
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Anon)
831.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them.
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.(Oscar Wilde)
832.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth
that bites you. (Peter de Vries)
833.
1 Chronicles 4:9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his
mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." 10 And Jabez
called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and
enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep
me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.
834.
When things go wrong, don't go with them. (Anon.)
835.
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus: to talk about cost when
you are in love with someone is an insult. (Oswald Chambers)
836.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
837.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps
there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among
flowers. (Helen Keller)
838.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge,
and dares forgive an injury. (E. H. Chapin)
839.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
(Will Rogers)
840.
The Greatest Commandment: Everything in your Christian life, everything
about knowing Him and experiencing Him, everything about knowing His will,
depends on the quality of your love relationship to God. (Henry T. Blackaby)
841.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no
good evidence either way. (Bertrand Russell)
842.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world. (Anne Frank)
843.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up
what everyone means by friendship. (Francis Marion Crawford)
844.
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends
because no one is complete enough in himself. (Anais Nin)
845.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
(Charles Caleb Colton)
846.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them (Kim Hubbard)
847.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing
the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. (Oprah
Winfrey)
848.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign
his work. (Anatole France)
849.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other
twenty percent are glad you have them. (Lou Holtz)
850.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that
aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. (Marilyn Ferguson)
851.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne Morrow
Lindbergh)
852.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't
here. (Finley Peter Dunne)
853.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to
conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our
anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi)
854.
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth,
seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy
festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace" (Zechariah 8:19).
855.
By showing Christ's love to homosexuals and abortionists we will enact
more moral change than a thousand social agendas will. (Jonathan M. Fritz, St.
Louis, MO. CT letter)
856.
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are
more plans than he looked for. (CS Lewis)
857.
How are you going to keep them down on the farm, after they've seen the
farm? (Anonymous)
858.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. (Ps. 81:10)
859.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.
(Bertrand Russell)
860.
In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that
they want to happen actually will happen. (Roberta Wohlstetter)
861.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. (Alexander Pope)
862.
You can only predict things after they have happened. (Eugene Ionesco)
863.
The time is always right to do what is right. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
864.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is
the only end of life. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
865.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
866.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling
illusion that it has been mastered. (Stanley Kubrick)
867.
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. (Claude Swanson)
868.
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which
you are not. (St Augustine)
869.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second
best is anything but second best. (Doris Lessing)
870.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away
the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. (Corrie Ten Boom)
871.
There is no inner pain or conflict in heaven. But I think that neither could
there be a total separation from the infinite reality of which life on earth is a part,
necessarily transmuted into joy. Maybe that moment of relief from earthly pain is
drawn out into one eternal laugh. (Peter Newcombe)
872.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but
life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance
because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. (Katherine Mansfield)
873.
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
(Anonymous)
874.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (W. H. Auden)
875.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in
the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck)
876.
One should count each day a separate life. (Seneca)
877.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the
country and to mankind is to bring up a family. (George Bernard Shaw)
878.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with
diligence. (Samuel Johnson)
879.
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it
impossible. (George C. Lorimer)
880.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a
world without death...! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
881.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van
Buren)
882.
Some leaders are born women. (United Nations conference slogan)
883.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
(Anne Sexton)
884.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit
soft. (Theodore Roosevelt)
885.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and likes you just the same
(Anonymous small boy)
886.
Never eat more than you can lift. (Miss Piggy)
887.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
(Gertrude Stein)
888.
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of
others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without
reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing
others as wholly black or white. (Eric Hoffer)
889.
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in
order to discover. (Alfred North Whitehead)
890.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had
pimples. (George Burns)
891.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible
of this he would not be ignorant. (Saadi)
892.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. (Benjamen Disraili)
893.
An offense against your neighbor builds a fence between you and God.
(ODB)
894.
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they certainly pay for
all they get. (Frederick Douglass)
895.
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to
smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. (Mary Ellen Kelly)
896.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have
controlled me. (Abraham Lincoln)
897.
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. (CS
Lewis)
898.
There is no cry so good as that which comes from the bottom of the
mountains; no prayer half so hearty as that which comes up from the depths of the
soul, through deep trials and afflictions. Hence they bring us to God, and we are
happier; for nearness to God is happiness. Come, troubled believer, fret not over
your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies. (Spurgeon)
899.
Revolutions are brought about by men who think as men of action and act
as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)
900.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we
call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)
901.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
(Elbert Hubbard)
902.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for
today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that
follow. (Harriet Martineau)
903.
The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your mind and
thoughts under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol
yourself? Is it your work? Is it your idea of what a servant should be, or maybe
your experience of salvation and sanctification? If so, then your ability to see God
is blinded. (Oswald Chambers, 2/10)
904.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy
sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isaiah 44:22)
905.
Oh, what leanness of soul and neglect of spiritual things have been
brought on through the very mercies and bounties of God! Yet this is not a matter
of necessity, for the apostle tells us that he knew how to abound. When he had
much he knew how to use it. Abundant grace enabled him to bear abundant
prosperity. When he had a full sail he was loaded with much ballast, and so
floated safely. It needs more than human skill to carry the brimming cup of mortal
joy with a steady hand, yet Paul had learned that skill, for he declares, "In all
things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry." (Spurgeon, 2/10)
906.
The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found
only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It crams-packed with
opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner. (Richard M. Devos)
907.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)
908.
Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something else.
(William James)
909.
Prevention is better than cure: it is better to be so well armed that the devil
will not attack you, than to endure the perils of the fight, even though you come
off a conqueror. Pray this evening first that you may not be tempted, and next that
if temptation be permitted, you may be delivered from the evil one. (Spurgeon)
910.
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to
do. (Anon)
911.
I wanted to be scared again.... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the
only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. (Connie Chung)
912.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. (Seneca)
913.
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness
of head. (Teddy Roosevelt)
914.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed
it. (Mark Twain)
915.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at
home. (Sir Francis Bacon)
916.
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making — it's like taking too
many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.
(Dodie Smith)
917.
Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no
possibility of going wrong; I cannot. If a thing is free to be good it is also free to
be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. (CS Lewis)
918.
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself,
in the face of difficulties. (Katherine Mansfield)
919.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by
doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
920.
If you are miserable or bored in your work ... or dread going to it ... then
God is speaking to you. He either wants you to change the job you are in or —
more likely — he wants to change you. (Bruce Larson)
921.
One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn
that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of
Jesus Christ. (Oswald Chambers)
922.
Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are
off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.
(Oswald Chambers)
923.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
(Don Herold)
924.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the
individual you think you can't live without. (Dr. James C. Dobson)
925.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile.... initially scared
me to death. (Betty Bender)
926.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie Von EbnerEschenbach)
927.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the
more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which
are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are
ready enough to tell them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
928.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't
become a monster. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
929.
Heal me of this lust of mine to always vindicate myself. (Augustine)
930.
It will not bother me in the hour of death that I have been 'had for a sucker'
by any number of imposters; but it would be a torment to know that one had
refused even one person in need. (CS Lewis)
931.
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is
wasted. (Ruth E. Renkl)
932.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their
minds cannot change anything. (George Bernard Shaw)
933.
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the
way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)
934.
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. (Alfred North
Whitehead)
935.
Adults are obsolete children. (Dr. Seuss)
936.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as
somewhat of a recluse. (Emily Dickinson)
937.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be
perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set
people right. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
938.
One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands,
and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at. But
the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. (CS Lewis)
939.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an
everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build you up again
and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines
and go out to dance with the joyful." (Jeremiah 31:3-4)
940.
Cheese — milk's leap toward immortality. (Clifton Fadiman)
941.
I believe in getting into hot water, it keeps you clean. (G. K. Chesterton)
942.
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a
person who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret,
it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence,
Courage and Constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you
believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. (Walt Disney)
943.
We shall be true and everlasting and really divine persons only in Heaven,
just as we are, even now, coloured bodies only in the light. (CS Lewis)
944.
There is nothing more tragic in life than the utter impossibility of changing
what you have done. (John Galsworthy)
945.
Live a balanced life — Learn some and think some, and draw and paint
and sing and dance and play and work every day some. (Robert Fulghum)
946.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness — or so good as
drink. (G. K. Chesterton)
947.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows
how to swim. (Ann Landers)
948.
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize
psychic and emotional starvation. (Cherrie Moraga)
949.
The first thing for our soul's health, the first thing for His glory, and the
first thing for our own usefulness, is to keep ourselves in perpetual communion
with the Lord Jesus, and to see that the vital spirituality of our religion is
maintained over and above everything else in the world. (Spurgeon)
950.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each
man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow)
951.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get
and are thankful it's no worse than it is. (Margaret Mitchell)
952.
Emotion has taught mankind to reason. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
953.
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also
unquestionably not a private experience. (William Barclay)
954.
The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and His
blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubles almost always make us look to
God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. (Oswald Chambers)
955.
O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it.
Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. The more thou hast, the
more thou art in debt to God; and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders
thee a debtor. (Spurgeon)
956.
Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal
beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living — a
continual surprise of the life of God. (Oswald Chambers)
957.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
958.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside
your head is different from the world inside your head. (Thornton Wilder)
959.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see
why. (Mignon McLaughlin)
960.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not
defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid
only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. (Denis Waitley)
961.
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly
to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure
place in a portion of reality, in the human community. (Sigmund Freud)
962.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man
cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
(Francis Bacon)
963.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
worry than work. (Frost)
964.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Frost)
965.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Frost)
966.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your
father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son,
and his mother's always a Democrat. (Frost)
967.
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
(Frost)
968.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own
way. (Frost)
969.
I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. (Frost)
970.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a
boss and work twelve hours a day. (Frost)
971.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and
make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with
whatever's going. Not against: with. (Frost)
972.
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He
should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to
Christ the matter of how happy he should be. (Tozer)
973.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't
make a wrong choice — any choice will be the right one. (Tozer)
974.
What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. (Tozer)
975.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. (Tozer)
976.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds
are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. (Everett McKinley Dirksen)
977.
She offered her honor, he honored her offer and all night long it was honor
and offer. (Anonymous)
978.
The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have
outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of
mastery. (Janet Erskine Stuart)
979.
Profound truths, by their very nature cannot be 'comprehended' and only
unexpectedly do they 'aprehend' us. We strike them glancing blows from left and
right and so approximate their position. Like the elephant examined by the blind
fakirs, exactly opposite propositions may be the best we ever come up with. (Peter
Newcombe)
980.
When you blame others you give up your power to change. (Anon)
981.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a
sign of weakness and malady. (Voltaire)
982.
God loved the world so much that he sent his only son that whoever would
believe in him would not perish but have eternal life.
(Pocket Transfer translation)
The person that he trusted him as for God did not die everybody and sent a son of
his only one that there was not life of eternity and very liked the world.
983.
One burst of 'I think, therefore I am' reduces to silence a whole volume of
'I think I'll have the Swiss melt and fries,' and permanently props up a man's
reputation as a Serious Thinker. (Peter Newcombe)
984.
Presented with a mirror, baboons attack with the intent of eliminating what
they perceive to be a perfect threat. For that reason I hope I never meet my mirror
if such exists. It's far less unnerving to see others as my 'upline' or 'downline' to
borrow a little Amway geshtalt. (Peter Newcombe)
985.
Life is not a quiet pond but a whitewater expedition. Sometimes I almost
think I love it. (Peter Newcombe)
986.
When nobody around you measures up, it's time to check your yardstick.
(Bill Lemly)
987.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in
truth, you are. (Madeline L'Engle)
988.
If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of
disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your
expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are
frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. (Bruce
Barton)
989.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what
one has to do. (James Barrie)
990.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He
didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)
991.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Murray
Hopper)
992.
Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted
from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways of God
forsaken, the Lord's servants weep with bitter sorrow, but they may not despair,
for the darkest eras are governed by the Lord, and shall come to their end at His
bidding. What may seem defeat to us may be victory to Him. (Spurgeon)
993.
Life gives a man a true friend and then the true friend gives the man life.
(Peter Newcombe)
994.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. (Bernard de
Fontenelle)
995.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
(Henry David Thoreau)
996.
Some people claim to be seeking "tolerance," but what they are really
looking for is affirmation. Anything less, they call "intolerance." (David Block)
997.
Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of
ourselves. (Thomas L. Monson)
998.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
999.
As a parent you just hang on for the ride. (Robert Wagner)
1000.
Hell is not other people. Hell is no other people. (Fay Weldon)
1001.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum
star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which
there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan)
1002.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile
world: everyone you meet is your mirror. (Ken Keyes, Jr.)
1003.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or
intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the
prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of
civilization. (Calvin Coolidge)
1004.
Always do more than is required of you. (George Patton)
1005.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is
moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate
of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller)
1006.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. (Mark
Twain)
1007.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a
little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
(Dennis Wholey)
1008.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the
next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
1009.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King
Jr.)
1010.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have
made of them. (Georg Lichtenberg)
1011.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good. (Ann Landers)
1012.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. (Henrik Ibsen)
1013.
In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes
it is a great relief. (John Barrymore)
1014.
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs
in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is
it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring
the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
(Benjamin Franklin)
1015.
A Liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. (Frank
Dane)
1016.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope
for it is a fool. (Albert Camus)
1017.
To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the
name knowledge. (Ambrose Bierce)
1018.
A Jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer. (Robert Frost)
1019.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
(Thomas Edison)
1020.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should
strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a
remembrance. (John Keats)
1021.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest
violence. (Hebrew proverb)
1022.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the
same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)
1023.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much intermittent
gloom. (Margaret Drabble)
1024.
To give and not to feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of
giving. (Max Beerbohm)
1025.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well. (Voltaire)
1026.
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. (Bill
Cosby)
1027.
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish
proverb)
1028.
[Experience is] how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and
forgive each other. (Judy Collins)
1029.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Miguel de
Cervantes)
1030.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be
millionaires. (Abigail Van Buren)
1031.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of
civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
1032.
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian)
1033.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. (Charles Mingus)
1034.
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central
idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. (Edward Everett to
Abraham Lincoln)
1035.
A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away,
the more he had. (John Bunyan)
1036.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon)
1037.
Blaming God is evidence that we are refusing to let go of some
disobedience somewhere in our lives. But as soon as we let go, everything
becomes as clear as daylight to us. As long as we try to serve two masters,
ourselves and God, there will be difficulties combined with doubt and confusion.
Our attitude must be one of complete reliance on God. Once we get to that point,
there is nothing easier than living the life of a saint. We encounter difficulties
when we try to usurp the authority of the Holy Spirit for our own purposes.
(Oswald Chambers, 12/14)
1038.
When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so
big we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's
so big, I can't miss."
1039.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully)
1040.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. (Anonymous)
1041.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to
instruct, even our friends. (Charles Caleb Colton)
1042.
I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making
themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
(Patricia Moyes)
1043.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft
underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (CS
Lewis)
1044.
It is a sweet sign of a humble and broken heart, when the child of God is
willing to obey a command which is not essential to his salvation, which is not
forced upon him by a selfish fear of condemnation, but is a simple act of
obedience and of communion with his Master. (Spurgeon)
1045.
Quotes are like cactus spines — while otherwise absorbed in the business
of living, some small point you make is sure to startle someone. (Peter
Newcombe)
1046.
I am like a pebble being pushed to the sky by a great mountain rushing up
beneath me. (Peter Newcombe)
1047.
What a strange and frightening beauty has this life. (Peter Newcombe)
1048.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. (Latin proverb)
1049.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Conrad Hilton)
1050.
Try to understand exactly what loving your neighbor as yourself means. I
have to love him as I love myself. Well, how exactly do I love myself? Now that I
come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection for
myself, and I do not even always enjoy my own society. So apparently "Love
your neighbour" does not mean "feel fond of him" or "find him attractive...." That
is an enormous relief. (CS Lewis)
1051.
The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but
that their sufferings might be like His. (George MacDonald)
1052.
Every Christian can have his body under absolute control for God. God
has given us the responsibility to rule over all "the temple of the Holy Spirit,"
including our thoughts and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19). We are responsible for
these, and we must never give way to improper ones. (Oswald Chambers)
1053.
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go
bankrupt.(Mary Pettibone Poole)
1054.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. (Henry David
Thoreau)
1055.
Who knows what he is told, must know a lot of things that are not so.
(Arthur Guiterman)
1056.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of
great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. (Chinese proverb)
1057.
What worries you, masters you. (Haddon W. Robinson)
1058.
Nothing can be done except little by little. (Charles Baudelaire)
1059.
The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1060.
I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no
cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
(Beverly Sills)
1061.
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you
yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage
to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. (Marion Howard)
1062.
Those who wish to sing always find a song. (Swedish proverb)
1063.
You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You
should take advantage of every one of them. (Thomas Edison)
1064.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the
weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
(George Washington Carver)
1065.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch
beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? (Robert Browning)
1066.
God never coerces us. Sometimes we wish He would make us be obedient,
and at other times we wish He would leave us alone. Whenever God's will is in
complete control, He removes all pressure. (Oswald Chambers, 12/7)
1067.
The moral law, ordained by God, does not make itself weak to the weak
by excusing our shortcomings. It remains absolute for all time and eternity. If we
are not aware of this, it is because we are less than alive. Once we do realize it,
our life immediately becomes a fatal tragedy. (Oswald Chambers, 12/7)
1068.
He casteth forth His ice like morsels freezing the streams of our delight.
He does it all, He is the great Winter King, and rules in the realms of frost, and
therefore thou canst not murmur. Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness, poverty,
and a thousand other ills, are of the Lord's sending, and come to us with wise
design. Frosts kill noxious insects, and put a bound to raging diseases; they break
up the clods, and sweeten the soul. O that such good results would always follow
our winters of affliction! (Spurgeon)
1069.
Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about the hundred talents I
paid for these Israelite troops?" The man of God replied, "The LORD can give
you much more than that." (2 Chr 25:9)
1070.
He who wraps a threadbare coat about a good conscience has gained a
spiritual wealth far more desirable than any he has lost. God's smile and a
dungeon are enough for a true heart; His frown and a palace would be hell to a
gracious spirit. (Spurgeon)
1071.
You cannot believe on a half-Christ. We take him for what he is — the
anointed Savior and Lord who is King of kings and Lord of all lords! He would
not be who he is if he saved us and called us and chose us without the
understanding that he can also guide and control our lives. (Tozer)
1072.
Vigorous writing is concise. (William Strunk)
1073.
As he saw now, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by
buying the field from which one had seen it. (CS Lewis)
1074.
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant
compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. (Brendan Francis)
1075.
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
(Albert Camus)
1076.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (I Thessalonians)
1077.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and godesses, to
remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one
day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to
worship.... There are no ordinary people. (CS Lewis)
1078.
The proverb warns that, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you."
But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. (Thomas Szasz)
1079.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after
that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second (Logan Pearsall
Smith)
1080.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must
observe. (Marilyn vos Savant)
1081.
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. (Ann Landers)
1082.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch
that never hurts. (Charles Dickens)
1083.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy
the bridge by which God would come to you. (Peter Marshall)
1084.
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our
purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden
with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions (Colossians 3:3). Our
human relationships are the very conditions in which the ideal life of God should
be exhibited. (Oswald Chambers, 11/16)
1085.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the
great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are
really a wise man. (Euripides)
1086.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with
what you are expecting to give — which is everything. (Katharine Hepburn)
1087.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
(William Saroyan)
1088.
Repay evil with good and you deprive the evildoer of all the pleasure of
his wickedness. (Leo Tolstoy)
1089.
For instance, many men desire the beautiful and well-favoured Rachel of
joy and peace in believing, but they must first be wedded to the tender-eyed Leah
of repentance. Every one falls in love with happiness, and many would cheerfully
serve twice seven years to enjoy it, but according to the rule of the Lord's
kingdom, the Leah of real holiness must be beloved of our soul before the Rachel
of true happiness can be attained. (Spurgeon)
1090.
How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or
fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect,
irrepressible, triumphant belief. (Chambers)
1091.
Never assume that you "know" human nature: Man is always worse than
most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. (Reinhold
Niebuhr)
1092.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the
dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)
1093.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. (Ralph W.
Sockman)
1094.
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes
seem worthwhile. (Garry Marshall)
1095.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you
are. (Julius Charles Hare)
1096.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)
1097.
You need not say, "I am true:" be true. Boast not of integrity, but be
upright. (Spurgeon)
1098.
Can a mother forget her little child and not have love for her own son? Yet
even if that should be, I will not forget you. See, I have tattooed your name upon
my palm, and ever before me is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins. (Isa 49:1516)
1099.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. (Mark
Twain)
1100.
It is easier to stay out than get out. (Mark Twain)
1101.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made
school boards. (Mark Twain)
1102.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Mark Twain)
1103.
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good
library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. (Mark Twain)
1104.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses
it. (Rabindranath Tagore)
1105.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. (Maya
Angelou)
1106.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an
accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation. (Gail Sheehy)
1107.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. (John Wesley)
1108.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to
prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are
right. (H.L. Mencken)
1109.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
(Epictetus)
1110.
Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or
contentment, or even common sense. (CS Lewis)
1111.
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)
1112.
The 'C' students run the world. (Harry Truman)
1113.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. (Saint
Teresa of Avila)
1114.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer.
Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? (CS
Lewis)
1115.
Dear God: I know you will provide, but why don't you provide until you
provide? (Jewish saying)
1116.
My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether
insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of
life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. (Chambers)
1117.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change
everything — or nothing. (Nancy Astor)
1118.
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how
wonderful you are. (Laurence Peter)
1119.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. (Sara
Teasdale)
1120.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
cumbered with your old nonsense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1121.
Do not scold, like a kitchen-girl. No warrior scolds. Courteous words or
else hard knocks are his only language. (CS Lewis)
1122.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate
deserts. The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.
By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the
propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard
heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. (CS Lewis)
1123.
God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with
unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow, but
this sweet fact may cheer us, that no good thing shall be withheld. (Spurgeon)
1124.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only
by non-hatred — this is the law Eternal. (Buddha)
1125.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. (Eric Hoffer)
1126.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you see it
again. (Earl Wilson)
1127.
There are few women who will admit their age. There are fewer men who
will act theirs. (Anonymous)
1128.
When a soldier is wounded in battle it is of little use for him to know that
there are those at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and medicines there to
ease all the pains which he now suffers: what he needs is to be carried thither, and
to have the remedies applied. It is thus with our souls, and to meet this need there
is one, even the Spirit of truth, who takes of the things of Jesus, and applies them
to us. (Spurgeon)
1129.
This thing which I have called for convenience the 'Tao' and which others
may call Natural Law, or Traditional Morality, or the First Principles of Practical
Reason, or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of
value. It is the sole source of all value judgments...If the pursuit of scientific
knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new
ideologies against the 'Tao' is a rebellion of the branches against the tree; if the
rebels could succeed, they would find that they destroyed themselves. The human
mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new
primary color, or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in.
(CS Lewis)
1130.
We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises — human nature and
pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently. But it does
require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a
saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored
existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional
things for God — but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things
of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people — and this is not
learned in five minutes. (Oswald Chambers)
1131.
He who loves praise loves temptation. (Thomas Wilson)
1132.
We must adjust ourselves to the Bible — never the Bible to ourselves.
(ODB)
1133.
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
(William Ernest Hocking)
1134.
Salvation is a gift to be received — not a goal to be achieved. (ODB,
10/17/00)
1135.
Prayer does not equip us for greater works — prayer is the greater work....
Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are.... Yet we refuse to
pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual
selfishness.... It is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible.
(Chambers, Upmost, 10/17/00)
1136.
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not
too ill. (Samuel Butler)
1137.
Our deepest fear is that we are not inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens
us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does
not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory
of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we
let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
(Nelson Mandela — inaugural address in 1994)
1138.
We are all angels with only one wing, who can only fly when embracing
each other. (Liciano De Crescenzo)
1139.
The Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine. He heals the
wound, but it is by applying the holy ointment of Christ's name and grace.
(Spurgeon)
1140.
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
(Anonymous)
1141.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close
enough to your eye. (Samuel Grafton)
1142.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk
or running for office. (Shirley McLaine)
1143.
Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish. (William Allen
White)
1144.
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
(Laurence J. Peter)
1145.
All sunshine makes a desert. (Arabic proverb)
1146.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard)
1147.
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't
there. (Gene Brown)
1148.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's
not the sort of comfort they supply there. (CS Lewis)
1149.
Happiness is a choice. Reach out for it at the moment it appears, like a
balloon drifting seaward in a bright blue sky. (Adair Lara)
1150.
God gives the very best to those who leave the choice to Him. (J. Hudson
Taylor)
1151.
"The Saints Among Us," is a recent poll completed by George Gallup.
This survey reveals that less than 10% of Americans are deeply committed
Christians. Gallup says only 6% — 10% have what he termed a "high spiritual
faith." The people of this minority group are categorized as particularly influential
and happy. These folks are, as Gallup says, "a breed apart." "They are more
tolerant of people of diverse backgrounds. They are more involved in charitable
activities. They are more involved in practical Christianity. They are absolutely
committed to prayer. They are far, far happier than the rest of the population,"
said Mr. Gallup. (The Houston Post, July 6, 1991, p. E-3)
1152.
These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as
ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some
day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back,
confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and worldshaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and
snorting in the king's stables. (CS Lewis)
1153.
Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or
nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. (CS Lewis)
1154.
They do not love who do not show their love. (William Shakespeare)
1155.
Now I see that nothing but my Lord's own power can save such a naughty
mass of wickedness as I am; ordinances fail, even the gospel has no effect upon
me, till His hand is stretched out. (Spurgeon)
1156.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
Nations, cultures, arts, civilization — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as
the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub,
and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. (CS Lewis)
1157.
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal
that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
(Edward P. Tryon)
1158.
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life,
something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very
process of life begins to nourish your soul! (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
1159.
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think. (H. L. Mencken)
1160.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. (Francois de
Fenelon)
1161.
If your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where. — Anon.
1162.
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it. (ODB)
1163.
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own
opinions. (Proverbs 18:1)
1164.
We use the means, but the blessing does not spring from the means. We
dig a well, but heaven fills it with rain. (Spurgeon)
1165.
...the trial is not so heavy as it might have been; next, the trouble is not so
severe as we deserved to have borne; and our affliction is not so crushing as the
burden which others have to carry. (Spurgeon)
1166.
Our heart is like a crooked fence — all the paint in the world won't
straighten it out. (ODB)
1167.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
(Epictetus)
1168.
If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong,
though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake.
(Spurgeon)
1169.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of
happiness. (Bertrand Russell)
1170.
Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Diana Schneider)
1171.
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than
when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do Our Enemy's will,
looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished,
and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. (CS Lewis)
1172.
The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin — Jesus
Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning
our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily, nor does God intend
that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does
not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy
in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn
that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. (Oswald
Chambers)
1173.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love
letter to the world. (Mother Teresa)
1174.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. (Voltaire,
Candide)
1175.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't
have to keep them, either, they keep you. (Dr. Frank Crane)
1176.
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently
motivated, discipline will take care of itself. (Sir Alexander Paterson)
1177.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Adams Keller)
1178.
Jesus, open my eyes to the needs of Your hurting children. Stretch out my
hands to touch them all.
1179.
Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you,
do not demand it back (Luke 6:27-36).
1180.
Virtue — even attempted virtue — brings light; indulgence brings fog.
(CS Lewis)
1181.
You are beggars at His gate, asking for mercy, and you must needs draw
up rules and regulations as to how He shall give that mercy. Think you that He
will submit to this? My Master is of a generous spirit, but He has a right royal
heart, He spurns all dictation, and maintains His sovereignty of action. (Spurgeon)
1182.
I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with
your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven
but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may
fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps 73:23-26)
1183.
Always remember that poverty and every other ill, lovingly accepted, has
all the spiritual value of voluntary poverty or penance. (CS Lewis)
1184.
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry. (Laurence Peter)
1185.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the
mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at
a moment's notice retire into thyself. (Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
1186.
Living a full and overflowing life does not rest in bodily health, in
circumstances, nor even in seeing God's work succeed, but in the perfect
understanding of God, and in the same fellowship and oneness with Him that
Jesus Himself enjoyed.
1187.
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is for me to have no trouble;
never to be fretted or vexed or irritated or sore or disappointed. It is to expect
nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me.
It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is
to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel
to my Father in secret and be at peace.... (Andrew Murrey)
1188.
If we have to put one stitch into the garment of our salvation, we shall ruin
the whole thing. (Spurgeon)
1189.
When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is born
in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is the way that the life
of God in us is nourished. (Oswald Chambers)
1190.
It's important to count you blessings, but its more important to make them
count (Ziggy, Tom Wilson)
1191.
It's never too late — in fiction or in life — to revise. (Nancy Thayer)
1192.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar
Wilde)
1193.
Kind words are always the right kind. (ODB)
1194.
In the kingdom of God service is not a stepping-stone to nobility: it is
nobility. (T. W. Manson)
1195.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference
between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is
imperative, and the second is disastrous. (Margaret Fontey)
1196.
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one.
(Max Lucado)
1197.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself
that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
1198.
Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
1199.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for,
great enough to die for. (Dag Hammarskjold)
1200.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand
heads bowing in prayer. (Mahatma Gandhi)
1201.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice,
there is. (Chuck Reid)
1202.
Nowadays, people can be divided into three classes — the Haves, the
Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-for-What-They-Haves. (Earl Wilson)
1203.
There is no getting at our God sometimes because of the multitude of our
friends; but when a man is so poor, so friendless, so helpless that he has nowhere
else to turn, he flies into his Father's arms, and is blessedly clasped therein!
(Spurgeon)
1204.
Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am
visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some
things only learned in a fiery furnace. (Oswald Chambers)
1205.
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but
... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Bliss Carm)
1206.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)
1207.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into
lessons, all sins into experience. (Katherine Tingley)
1208.
A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirtyminute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But
he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time — more than four days —
which should be a hanging offense. (Jenkin Lloyd Jones)
1209.
My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere.... be brief....
be seated. (James Roosevelt)
1210.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was
or what freedom really is. (Margaret Mitchell)
1211.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. (Axel Munthe)
1212.
You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in
you. (Augustine)
1213.
The true character of the loveliness that speaks for God is always
unnoticed by the one possessing that quality. Conscious influence is prideful and
unchristian. If I wonder if I am being of any use to God, I instantly lose the beauty
and the freshness of the touch of the Lord. "He who believes in Me.... out of his
heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). And if I examine the outflow, I
lose the touch of the Lord. (Oswald Chambers)
1214.
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. (Dale
Carnegie)
1215.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy
Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz)
1216.
When God witholds His plan He wants us to look to His heart. (David C.
Egner)
1217.
Working for the Lord on a daily basis means striving to become the best
company president or restaurant dishwasher possible. (Jamie Winship)
1218.
The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely
necessary. "He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." A
mother's heart cries, "Spare my child"; but no mother is more compassionate than
our gracious God. When we consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder
that we are not driven with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that
He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our
tribulation. (Spurgeon)
1219.
If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with thee in temptation to keep thee
from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent thee from sinking; with thee living
to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy
soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast. (Spurgeon, 8/17)
1220.
A tender heart is the best defense against sin, and the best preparation for
heaven. (Spurgeon, 8/15)
1221.
"Whoever has been born of God does not sin...." (1 John 3:9). Am I
seeking to stop sinning or have I actually stopped? be born of God means that I
have His supernatural power to stop sinning. The Bible never asks, "Should a
Christian sin?" The Bible emphatically states that a Christian must not sin. The
work of the new birth is being effective in us when we do not commit sin. It is not
merely that we have the power not to sin, but that we have actually stopped
sinning. (Oswald Chambers)
1222.
The Lord's strength is ever available; we have but to invoke it, and we
shall find it near at hand. If by faith we are depending alone upon the strength of
the mighty God of Israel, we may use our holy reliance as a plea in supplication.
(Spurgeon, 8/19)
1223.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. (Victor Hugo)
1224.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does
more than is required of him, he is a free man. (Chinese Proverb)
1225.
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know
nothing at all about it and think they have it already. (CS Lewis)
1226.
The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into
the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind
and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror. (Pascal in
Pensees, 185.)
1227.
The receiving of the Word consists of two parts: attention of mind and
intention of will. (William Ames)
1228.
I wake up everyday, no matter what anybody says or what goes wrong or
whatever, with this overwhelming sense of gratitude. Because it may be that if I
hadn't been knocked down in the way I was and forced to come to grips with what
I've done, and the consequences of it, in such an awful way, I might not never
ever had to really deal with it 100 percent. (Clinton)
1229.
A lady once asked John Wesley if he knew that he would die at midnight
the next day, how would he spend the intervening time. He replied, "Why,
madam, just as I intend to spend it now. I would preach this evening at
Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning; after that I would ride to
Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the societies in the evening. I
would then go to Martin's house...talk and pray with the family as usual, retire
myself to my room at 10 o'clock, commend myself to my Heavenly Father, lie
down to rest, and wake up in glory."
1230.
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God
is the greatest achievement! (George W. Truett, quoted in "Toolkit," Cell Church,
Winter, 1996, p. 10.)
1231.
When God bolts the door, don't try to get in through the window.
(Anonymous)
1232.
Be wise with speed. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. (Edward Young)
1233.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly
reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same
topic. (Lisa Alther)
1234.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible. (Albert Einstein)
1235.
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord
Chesterfield)
1236.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks
at Him and bad when it turns away from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in
the natural order, the more demonic it will be if it rebels. It's not out of bad mice
or bad fleas you make demons, but out of bad archangels. (CS Lewis)
1237.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will. (Augustine)
1238.
Once while Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, "What
would you do if you suddenly learned that you where to die at sunset today?" He
replied, "I would finish hoeing my garden."
1239.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary
troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we
fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is
temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Cor. 4:16-18)
1240.
No normal, healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he simply chooses God's
will, just as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. (Oswald Chambers)
1241.
Mom, why did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up
for?
1242.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at
work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
1243.
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun
which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and
spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience.
(CS Lewis)
1244.
When we trust God's promises, we won't demand explanations.(ODB)
1245.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this
shall be free, safe and happy. (Seneca)
1246.
What a glorious hour when God, and not His creatures; the Lord, and not
His works, shall be our daily joy! Our souls shall then have attained the perfection
of bliss. (Spurgeon)
1247.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt
you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. (Leonardo da Vinci)
1248.
Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a
weakness we must ask Him to pardon — for He's told us take no care for the
morrow. (CS Lewis)
1249.
You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey)
1250.
We are not taken into a conscious agreement with God's purpose — we
are taken into God's purpose with no awareness of it at all. We have no idea what
God's goal may be; as we continue, His purpose becomes even more and more
vague. God's aim appears to have missed the mark, because we are too
nearsighted to see the target at which He is aiming. (Oswald Chambers)
1251.
In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we
have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ,
our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the
New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of
God. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you...." (John 15:16). (Oswald
Chambers)
1252.
A couple married for 15 years began having more than usual
disagreements. They wanted to make their marriage work and agreed on an idea
the wife had. For one month they planned to drop a slip in a "Fault" box. The
boxes would provide a place to let the other know about daily irritations. The wife
was diligent in her efforts and approach: "leaving the jelly top off the jar," "wet
towels on the shower floor," "dirty socks not in hamper," on and on until the end
of the month. After dinner, at the end of the month, they exchanged boxes. The
husband reflected on what he had done wrong. Then the wife opened her box and
began reading. They were all the same, the message on each slip was, "I love
you!"
1253.
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one
candle. (Arthur Gordon) (The actual words were written by a lonely old woman
whose pet had been killed by a Nazi bomb.)
1254.
Pastor William E. Sangster told of an experience in his youth when he
went on a vacation with some friends. Within a short time he had spent all the
funds given him for the trip, so he wrote home for more. His father, thinking he
should teach his son the value of money, did not respond to the request. Sangster's
companions wondered why he had been turned down and suggested several
reasons. Young William said to them, "I'll wait till I get home, and he'll tell me
himself." (ODB)
1255.
Eighty percent of success is showing up. (Woody Allen)
1256.
Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules,
even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. (CS Lewis)
1257.
He is one and there is no second. (Richard Wurmbrand)
1258.
When we become certain that God is going to work in a particular way,
He will never work in that way again. (Oswald Chambers)
1259.
We are all like the moon, we have a dark side we don't want anyone to
see. (Mark Twain)
1260.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a
bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)
1261.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged
justly? (Lord Byron)
1262.
We should never have the thought that our dreams of success are God's
purpose for us. In fact, His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have the idea
that God is leading us toward a particular end or a desired goal, but He is not. The
question of whether or not we arrive at a particular goal is of little importance,
and reaching it becomes merely an episode along the way. What we see as only
the process of reaching a particular end, God sees as the goal itself. (Oswald
Chambers, 7/28)
1263.
What is my vision of God's purpose for me? Whatever it may be, His
purpose is for me to depend on Him and on His power now. If I can stay calm,
faithful, and unconfused while in the middle of the turmoil of life, the goal of the
purpose of God is being accomplished in me. God is not working toward a
particular finish — His purpose is the process itself. (Oswald Chambers, 7/28)
1264.
God's training is for now, not later. His purpose is for this very minute, not
for sometime in the future. We have nothing to do with what will follow our
obedience, and we are wrong to concern ourselves with it. What people call
preparation, God sees as the goal itself. (Oswald Chambers)
1265.
God's purpose is to enable me to see that He can walk on the storms of my
life right now. If we have a further goal in mind, we are not paying enough
attention to the present time. However, if we realize that moment-by-moment
obedience is the goal, then each moment as it comes is precious. (Oswald
Chambers, 7/28)
1266.
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner
promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression
for our temperament and our gifts. (Georges Rouault)
1267.
If you bow at all, bow low. (Chinese Proverb)
1268.
The imitation says, "Bear your cross, for if you try to get rid of it you will
probably find another and worse one." But there is a brighter side to the same
principle. When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given it
its place. (CS Lewis)
1269.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the
world's deep hunger meet. (Frederick Buechner)
1270.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power
predominates, there love is lacking. (Carl Jung)
1271.
Solving the income tax — Dave Barry style
How to simplify tax law: Every April 15, lock all members of Congress in prison
cells with tax forms ad the tax code. Keep them there, without food or water, until
they had completed their tax returns and successfully undergone a full IRS audit.
Naturally, Mr. Barry says, "this system would probably result in a severe shortage
of Congresspersons.... But there might also be some drawbacks." (The LPC
Monthly)
1272.
There are people who do not accept the full Christian doctrine about Christ
but who are so strongly attracted by Him that they are His in a much deeper sense
than they themselves understand. (CS Lewis)
1273.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing — peace
is the measure. (George Melton)
1274.
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters
worse. (Ward Cleaver)
1275.
Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious, because
there is only one master of the human heart — Jesus Christ, not religion. (Oswald
Chambers)
1276.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know
what his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln)
1277.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous
formation through choice of action. (John Dewey)
1278.
Jesus said there are times when God cannot lift the darkness from you, but
you should trust Him. At times God will appear like an unkind friend, but He is
not; He will appear like an unnatural father, but He is not; He will appear like an
unjust judge, but He is not. Keep the thought that the mind of God is behind all
things strong and growing. Not even the smallest detail of life happens unless
God's will is behind it. (Oswald Chambers)
1279.
Fill your mind with the thought that God is there. And once your mind is
truly filled with that thought, when you experience difficulties it will be as easy as
breathing for you to remember, "My heavenly Father knows all about this!" This
will be no effort at all, but will be a natural thing for you when difficulties and
uncertainties arise. (Oswald Chambers)
1280.
If you can say, "Master," if you feel that His will is your will, then you
stand in a happy, holy place. (Spurgeon)
1281.
No Reserve. No Retreat. No Regrets. (William Borden)
1282.
In times of revolutionary changes it is the life-long learner who is best
able to adapt. (Eric Hofer)
1283.
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. (Dan
McKinnon)
1284.
When you can't have what you choose, you choose what you have. (Owen
Wister)
1285.
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of
attainment. (Motto of Lord Newborough)
1286.
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Victor Hugo)
1287.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. (CS Lewis)
1288.
Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to
all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live
self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the
blessed hope — the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for
himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
1289.
God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung and bled, it was God
saying to the world, "I love you." (Billy Graham)
1290.
Never look for righteousness in the other person, but never cease to be
righteous yourself. We are always looking for justice, yet the essence of the
teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is — Never look for justice, but never cease
to give it. (Oswald Chambers)
1291.
There is among Christians far too much inclination to square and reconcile
the truths of revelation; this is a form of irreverence and unbelief, let us strive
against it, and receive truth as we find it; rejoicing that the doctrines of the Word
are unhewn stones, and so are all the more fit to build an altar for the Lord.
(Spurgeon)
1292.
(Exodus 20:25) God's altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace
of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim
and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more
congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of
improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel,
and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own
Word are defilements and pollutions. The proud heart of man is very anxious to
have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; preparations for Christ are
dreamed of, humblings and repentings are trusted in, good works are cried up,
natural ability is much vaunted, and by all means the attempt is made to lift up
human tools upon the divine altar.... The Lord alone must be exalted in the work
of atonement, and not a single mark of man's chisel or hammer will be endured.
(Spurgeon)
1293.
Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years in prison for
preaching the gospel. Although his captors smashed four of his vertebrae and
either cut or burned 18 holes in his body, they could not defeat him. He testified,
"Alone in my cell, cold, hungry, and in rags, I danced for joy every night."
(Oswald Smith)
1294.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials. (Chinese Proverb)
1295.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their
religion. (Henry David Thoreau)
1296.
Gen 4:6-7 "Why are you angry?" the Lord asked him. "Why is your face
so dark with rage? It can be bright with joy if you will do what you should! But if
you refuse to obey, watch out. Sin is waiting to attack you, longing to destroy
you. But you can conquer it!" (TLB)
1297.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
1298.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. (La Rochefoucauld)
1299.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. (Sir Winston S.
Churchill)
1300.
We use God only for the sake of getting peace and joy. We seek only our
enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization of Him. This is the first step in
the wrong direction. All these things we are seeking are simply effects, and yet we
try to make them causes. (Oswald Chambers)
1301.
Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience
is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from
Grace. (Thomas a Kempis)
1302.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one
concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of
our satisfaction from a single aspiration. (Sigmund Freud)
1303.
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. (Mark
Twain)
1304.
What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the
sky! I'm moving here! (Guido Orefice [Roberto Benigni])
1305.
Watching The Patriot, I was reminded of an essay in which G.K.
Chesterton argued that so-called moral films — films which oversimplify history
and stir partisan sentiments while shutting down people's minds — were a greater
peril to society than their lowbrow, allegedly immoral counterparts. (Peter T.
Chattaway)
1306.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
(George Elliot)
1307.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their
minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. (CS Lewis)
1308.
On the outside, it may appear to others that we are winning the battle
against sin. But we must stay alert to the sins of the spirit, especially pride. They
can cause us to stumble and fall, (ODB)
1309.
God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives
as an embodiment of his will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what
grace can do. (Andrew Murray)
1310.
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's beliefs that
they "own" their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the
energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent,
and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of another! (CS Lewis)
1311.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. (Amelia Burr)
1312.
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others
with the judgment of charity. (John Mitchell Mason)
1313.
Words written on the flyleaf of a Bible: "Acknowledgment. Acceptance.
Adjustment." (ODB)
1314.
God takes us into His darkroom to develop our character. (ODB)
1315.
There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to
principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause — He proclaimed
personal devotion to Himself. (Oswald Chambers)
1316.
Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but
the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with
joy. (Spurgeon)
1317.
Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have
known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines. (CS Lewis)
1318.
He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to
obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a
clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. (Oswald Chambers)
1319.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer
implore from others what you yourself can obtain. (Andre Gide, 1869-1951)
1320.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
(Cicero, "Pro Plancio," 54 B.C.)
1321.
If we neglect our duty, men will be not only contented but transported by
the mixed novelty and familiarity of snowdrops this January, sunrises this
morning, plum pudding this Christmas. ... Only by our incessant efforts is the
demand for infinite, or unrhythmical, change kept up. (CS Lewis)
1322.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the
experience. (Elbert Hubbard — 1856-1915)
1323.
When you sing your own praise you are always out of tune. (ODB)
1324.
To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, and to know a
thing is nothing unless others know you know it. (Charles Neaves)
1325.
If ... you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it
would be a punishment of itself..., then be of good courage, thou art a child of
God. (Spurgeon)
1326.
Charlie Hainline is a layman at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. He is a man who radiates the love of Christ, and is serious
about sharing his faith with others. One year, his goal was to lead 1650 people to
faith in Christ (5 a day)! Once, he was out witnessing with a couple of other folks,
and though he didn't share the gospel, he sat there and smiled broadly as a
teammate did. When the teammate was finished and asked if the person would
like to trust Christ and receive the gift of eternal life, the person replied, "If being
a Christian would make me like him (point to Charlie), I want it!" Charlie's life
wasn't a bed of roses by any means. His daughter was kidnapped, killed, and her
head was found floating in a canal. When the murderer of his daughter was caught
and convicted, Charlie went to jail in order to witness to the man. (Anonymous)
1327.
The continual inner-searching we do in an effort to see if we are what we
ought to be generates a self-centered, sickly type of Christianity, not the vigorous
and simple life of a child of God.... Launch out in reckless, unrestrained belief
that the redemption is complete. Then don't worry anymore about yourself, but
begin to do as Jesus Christ has said, in essence, "Pray for the friend who comes to
you at midnight, pray for the saints of God, and pray for all men." Pray with the
realization that you are perfect only in Christ Jesus, not on the basis of this
argument: "Oh, Lord, I have done my best; please hear me now." (Oswald
Chambers)
1328.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or
perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? (Robert Louis
Stevenson)
1329.
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life — embrace it. (Jim Beggs)
1330.
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your
tomorrows. (Sir William Osler)
1331.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. (Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe)
1332.
Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is
why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ.
People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started.
(Oswald Chambers)
1333.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick
himself up and carry on. (Winston Churchill)
1334.
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all...As
long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only
when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. (GK Chesterton)
1335.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from that of their social environment. (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955)
1336.
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
(Benjamin Jowett, 1817-1893)
1337.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always
spring up if thou wilt always look there. (Marcus Aurelius)
1338.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he
is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Emerson)
1339.
I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a
Christian, has the idea of an exam, or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of
real Christianity is to blow that idea into bits. (CS Lewis)
1340.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being
said. (Peter Drucker)
1341.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is
supposed be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley)
1342.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury
that provokes it. (Seneca)
1343.
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
(Swedish proverb)
1344.
We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you
cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can
dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). (Oswald
Chambers)
1345.
If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited;
therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance, — come to Him, and He
will give them to you. (Spurgeon)
1346.
One who makes it a rule to be content in every part and accident of life
because it comes from God praises God in a much higher manner than one who
has some set time for the singing of psalms. (William Law)
1347.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own
way. (Josh Billings)
1348.
The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily
repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the life of the body
encourages. ...Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure,
unity the road to personality. (CS Lewis)
1349.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death. (Leonardo da Vinci)
1350.
A soldier was astonished when he heard General Robert E. Lee speak in
complimentary terms about a fellow officer. "General," he said, "do you know
that the man you spoke so highly of is one of your worst enemies, and that he
misses no opportunity to slander you?"
"Yes," said the General, "but I was asked for my opinion of him, not his of me."
1351.
When you look for the bad in people, expecting to find it.... you surely
will (Benjamin Franklin)
1352.
In looking back, it would be wrong to deny that we have been in the
Slough of Despond, and have crept along the Valley of Humiliation, but it would
be equally wicked to forget that we have been through them safely and profitably;
we have not remained in them, thanks to our Almighty Helper and Leader, who
has brought us 'out into a wealthy place.' (Spurgeon)
1353.
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the
person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)
1354.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps,
that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then
see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which
will accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home
on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates
to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes
in every direction for a chance of escape? (CS Lewis)
1355.
If we were to hear 100 people repeating the sentence, 'Let not your heart
be troubled,' we should find that 99 of them put the emphasis upon the word
troubled.... I feel led to believe that the purposed emphasis is on the word heart....
The heart is to be clothed in serene regality even when hell is knocking and
rioting at its very gates. (J.H. Jowett)
1356.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
(Turkish proverb)
1357.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The
children are now working as if I did not exist." (Maria Montessori, Italian
educator — 1870-1952)
1358.
Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems
permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for a while. (Pickles comic
strip)
1359.
It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the
most, but whatever exerts the most power over us. (Oswald Smith)
1360.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the
understanding which bringeth peace. (Helen Keller)
1361.
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. (Franklin P.
Jones)
1362.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only
be grasped on link at a time. (Sir Winston Churchill)
1363.
Have you ever seen a sidewalk turned inside out because a little acorn fell
between the cracks? An acorn can't move sidewalks. But when you set the acorn
free to be what it was created to be, you've got an oak tree on your hands. The law
of the oak transcends the law of the concrete. When you accepted Jesus Christ,
you received the acorn of the Spirit who wants to become the oak of your life to
move aside the concrete of your problems. (Tony Evans)
1364.
The abiding awareness of the Christian life is to be God Himself, not just
thoughts about Him. The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely
obsessed by the presence of God. A child's awareness is so absorbed in his mother
that although he is not consciously thinking of her, when a problem arises, the
abiding relationship is that with the mother. In that same way, we are to "live and
move and have our being" in God (Acts 17:28), looking at everything in relation
to Him, because our abiding awareness of Him continually pushes itself to the
forefront of our lives.(Oswald Chambers)
1365.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us.
A duty to strive is the duty of us all. — Abraham Lincoln)
1366.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the
answer for everything (Eccl 10:19)
1367.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. (Booker
T. Washington)
1368.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. (George
Sand)
1369.
We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. (CS
Lewis)
1370.
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of rewards promised in the
Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too
weak. (CS Lewis)
1371.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William A. Ward)
1372.
I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living
and life-giving belief in Heaven. (CS Lewis)
1373.
There are certain things in life that we need not pray about — moods, for
instance. We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it
out of our lives. Moods nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance,
not in our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to the moods which
arise as a result of our physical condition, but we must never submit to them for a
second. We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake
ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to
do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that we won't. (Oswald
Chambers)
1374.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but
the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
(Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld)
1375.
Obedience from the heart is wanting to do what God tells you to do.
(ODB)
1376.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is
the path to truth. (Hans Reichenbach)
1377.
No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it removes God from the
throne of our lives, replacing Him with our own self-interests. It causes us to open
our mouths only to complain, and we simply become spiritual sponges — always
absorbing, never giving, and never being satisfied. And there is nothing lovely or
generous about our lives. (Oswald Chambers)
1378.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to
doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. (Theodore Rubin)
1379.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
(Josh Billings)
1380.
We are judged by how we finish, not by how we start. (ODB)
1381.
God is the Master Designer, and He allows adversities into your life to see
if you can jump over them properly — "By my God I can leap over a wall"
(Psalm 18:29).
1382.
The thief upon the cross was justified the moment that he turned the eye of
faith to Jesus; and Paul, the aged, after years of service, was not more justified
than was the thief with no service at all. We are to-day accepted in the Beloved,
to-day absolved from sin (Spurgeon)
1383.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese Proverb)
1384.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes. (Mahatma Gandhi)
1385.
God loves every one of us as if there were but one of us to love.
(Augustine)
1386.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure
is only an inconvenience rightly considered. (G.K. Chesterton)
1387.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
(Charles Kingsley)
1388.
A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command
unhesitatingly.... is the only true spirit of Bible study. (Andrew Murray)
1389.
Love means that there are no visible habits — that your habits are so
immersed in the Lord that you practice them without realizing it. If you are
consciously aware of your own holiness, you place limitations on yourself from
doing certain things — things God is not restricting you from at all. This means
there is a missing quality that needs to be added to your life. The only
supernatural life is the life the Lord Jesus lived, and He was at home with God
anywhere. Is there someplace where you are not at home with God? Then allow
God to work through whatever that particular circumstance may be until you
increase in Him, adding His qualities. Your life will then become the simple life
of a child. (Oswald Chambers)
1390.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert
Einstein)
1391.
Be kind — Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle —
everybody's lonesome. (Marion Parker)
1392.
We have seen only one [perfect] man. And he was not at all like the
psychologist's picture of the integrated, balanced, adjusted, happily married,
employed popular citizen. You can't really be very well 'adjusted' to your world if
it says you have a devil and ends by nailing you up naked to a stake of wood. (CS
Lewis)
1393.
Neither natural love nor God's divine love will remain and grow in me
unless it is nurtured. Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through
discipline. (Oswald Chambers)
1394.
Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do. When we
are desponding we are subject to a grievous malady, not to be trifled with, but to
be carried at once to the beloved Physician. (Spurgeon)
1395.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end. If you look for
comfort you will not get either comfort or truth — only soft soap and wishful
thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. (CS Lewis)
1396.
I bear witness that never servant had such a master as I have; never brother
such a kinsman as He has been to me; never spouse such a husband as Christ has
been to my soul; never sinner a better Saviour; never mourner a better comforter
than Christ hath been to my spirit. I want none beside Him. In life He is my life,
and in death He shall be the death of death; in poverty Christ is my riches; in
sickness He makes my bed; in darkness He is my star, and in brightness He is my
sun.... (Spurgeon)
1397.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose
presence calls forth your best. (Epictetus)
1398.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like
hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1399.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the
present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (Eric Hoffer)
1400.
Jesus prayed, "This is eternal life, that they may know You...." (John
17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face
without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance
— a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is
disciplining us to get us into this central place of power. (Oswald Chambers)
1401.
I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me. (Rabindranath Tagore)
1402.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the
fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. (Henry David Thoreau)
1403.
We must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill,
and we must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love. (Sigmund
Freud)
1404.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the
same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. (Marcus
Aurelius, Meditations, 200 A.D.)
1405.
To ask that God's love should be content with us is to ask that God should
cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things,
be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He
already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. (CS Lewis)
1406.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. (anonomous)
1407.
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have;
it depends solely on what you think (Dale Carnegie)
1408.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
(Helen Keller)
1409.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into
him, and cannot be reasoned out.(Sydney Smith)
1410.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly
mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single
stubbornness. (Louise Erdrich)
1411.
Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self....
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you
that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you
will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But
look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
(CS Lewis)
1412.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are
wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. (Ronald Reagan)
1413.
If we have only what we have experienced, we have nothing. But if we
have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we can experience.
Beware of the danger of spiritual relaxation. (Oswald Smith)
1414.
Christians often want to die when they have any trouble. Ask them why,
and they tell you, "Because we would be with the Lord." We fear it is not so much
because they are longing to be with the Lord, as because they desire to get rid of
their troubles; else they would feel the same wish to die at other times when not
under the pressure of trial. (Spurgeon)
1415.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the
more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more
insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
(Thomas Merton)
1416.
To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways.
(Archibald MacLeish)
1417.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The
world is crowded with Him. He walks incognito. And the incognito is not always
hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come
awake. Still more, to remain awake. (CS Lewis)
1418.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell)
1419.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has
forgiven the inexcusable in you. (CS Lewis)
1420.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it
or not. (Thomas Huxley)
1421.
If anyone would like to acquire humility...the first step is to realise that
one is proud...nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not
conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. (CS Lewis)
1422.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral
without love. (Ellen Key)
1423.
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as
injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feelings that a legitimate claim has
been denied. (CS Lewis)
1424.
There are some people who are totally unemployable in the spiritual
realm. They are spiritually feeble and weak, and they refuse to do anything unless
they are supernaturally inspired. The proof that our relationship is right with God
is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not. (Oswald Chambers)
1425.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at
the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe)
1426.
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and
sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His
disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life
totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have
been simply awakened by His Spirit.... God brings us up to a standard of life
through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in
others.... Many of us are dictators, dictating our desires to individuals and to
groups. But Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever our Lord talked
about discipleship, He always prefaced His words with an "if," never with the
forceful or dogmatic statement — "You must." Discipleship carries with it an
option. (Oswald Chambers)
1427.
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes
it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be
true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the
audience to whom His words are addressed. (CS Lewis)
1428.
...once our concentration is on God..., the only responsibility you have is
to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to
hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is
the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone.
(Oswald Chambers)
1429.
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and
the difference between things which are alike. (Germaine de Staël)
1430.
A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. (Franz Kafka)
1431.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
(Elbert G. Hubbard)
1432.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only
animal that is never satisfied. (Henry George)
1433.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
(Einstein)
1434.
A complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms. (ODB)
1435.
If your father and mother, your sister and brother, yes even the very cat
and dog in your house are not happier for your being a Christian, it is a question
whether you really are one or not. (Hudson Taylor)
1436.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is
the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. (CS Lewis)
1437.
Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and
Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing
are withdrawn. (Spurgeon)
1438.
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. (Charles Buxton)
1439.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is
almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal to Him. (CS Lewis)
1440.
If I could do it all again, I would do less, and allow God to do more
through me. (Vance Havner)
1441.
Our Lord doesn't hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to
receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life.... And our
own unyielding and headstrong opinions will effectively prevent God from
revealing anything to us. But our insensible thinking will end immediately once
His resurrection life has its way with us. (Oswald Chambers)
1442.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels he is 'finding his place in it,'
while really it is finding its place in him. (CS Lewis)
1443.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a
single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one
objective. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
1444.
What do people mean when they say "I am not afraid of God because he is
good?" Have they never been to a dentist? (CS Lewis)
1445.
Faithfulness in little things is a great thing. (ODB)
1446.
The ambiguous and the false, the unworthy and mean, will ere long
overthrow and confute themselves, and therefore the true can afford to be quiet,
and finds silence to be its wisdom. (Spurgeon)
1447.
... pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures,
speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a
deaf world. (CS Lewis)
1448.
What will all that chatter and hearsay count (will you even be able to
remember it?) when the anaesthetic fog which we call 'nature' or 'the real world'
fades away and the presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable,
immediate, and unavoidable? (CS Lewis)
1449.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
1450.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern,
but impossible to enslave. (Henry Peter Brougham, 1778-1868)
1451.
Use soft words and hard arguments. (English Proverb)
1452.
All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those
who are movable, and those who move! (Benjamin Franklin)
1453.
I can imagine our entire school system shriveling up. It is a $500 billiondollar enterprise. By everybody's measure, they are inefficient, ineffective and
very expensive. When we built that system, it was humanizing and democratic
and good. But its very structure — it simulated the factory.... Now they continue
to simulate a factory future, but the factories aren't going to be there. So what is
going to happen is that these schools are going to shrink in relevance.... (Alvin
Toffler)
1454.
He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan)
1455.
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all
along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from
the beginning a part of Heaven itself. (CS Lewis)
1456.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. (Harry
Emerson Fosdick)
1457.
I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was feed my sheep; not try
experiments on my rats, or even, teach my performing dogs new tricks. (CS
Lewis)
1458.
If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it
will mean refusing to do or even think certain things. And some things that are
acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us. (Oswald Chambers)
1459.
Calmness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can read. (Mark
Twain)
1460.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. (Albert Camus)
1461.
He treated the whole mob of men as a mob of kings. (GK Chesterton
about St Francis)
1462.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally
Kempton)
1463.
Listen intently with your entire being until you hear the Bridegroom's
voice in the life of another person. And never give any thought to what
devastation, difficulties, or sickness it will bring. Just rejoice with godly
excitement that His voice has been heard. You may often have to watch Jesus
Christ wreck a life before He saves it (see Matthew 10:34). (Oswald Chambers)
1464.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
(Epictetus)
1465.
We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven
— a senile benevolence who as they say 'liked to see young people enjoying
themselves.' (CS Lewis)
1466.
We have to face our sins before we can put them behind us. (ODB)
1467.
If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask
you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He
will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand
completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, "Oh, I can
explain that." (Oswald Chambers)
1468.
Behold the great Apostle and High Priest of our profession, and sweat
even to blood rather than yield to the great tempter of your souls. (Spurgeon)
1469.
Thankfulness in prayer can lift a load of care. (ODB)
1470.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he
exercises over himself. (Elie Wiesel)
1471.
... the only test we should use to determine whether or not to allow a
particular emotion to run its course in our lives is to examine what the final
outcome of that emotion will be. Think it through to its logical conclusion, and if
the outcome is something that God would condemn, put a stop to it immediately.
But if it is an emotion that has been kindled by the Spirit of God and you don't
allow it to have its way in your life, it will cause a reaction on a lower level than
God intended. That is the way unrealistic and overly emotional people are made.
(Oswald Chambers)
1472.
... death smites the goodliest of our friends; the most generous, the most
prayerful, the most holy, the most devoted must die. And why? It is through Jesus'
prevailing prayer — "Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be
with Me where I am." It is that which bears them on eagle's wings to heaven.
Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to
Christ's prayer.... You would give up your prayer for your loved one's life, if you
could realize the thoughts that Christ is praying in the opposite direction —
"Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am."
Lord, Thou shalt have them. By faith we let them go. (Spurgeon)
1473.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael J. Fox)
1474.
Let him do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and
affections will harm us if we can keep it out of his will. As one of the humans has
said, active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in
the long run, the less he will be able to feel. (CS Lewis)
1475.
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (St
Francis of Assisi)
1476.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they
please. (Pythagoras)
1477.
Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal...As spirits they
belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. (CS Lewis)
1478.
You are free to make decisions in the light of a perfect and delightful
friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong He will lovingly
produce that sense of restraint. Once he does, you must stop immediately.
(Oswald Chambers)
1479.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must
do. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
1480.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it. (Colin Wilson)
1481.
Let us make daily use of our riches, and ever repair to Him as to our own
Lord in covenant, taking from Him the supply of all we need with as much
boldness as men take money from their own purse. (Spurgeon)
1482.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But
let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's
relativity. (Albert Einstein)
1483.
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do
extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. (Philip
Adams)
1484.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have
an opportunity and not be prepared. (Whitney Young, Jr.)
1485.
We are saved by faith alone, but faith that saves is never alone. (ODB)
1486.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
(Dr. Wayne Dyer)
1487.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality. (Albert Einstein)
1488.
Praise God for the community of believers, for they are Christ to you.
(Anonymous)
1489.
The church is not a society of the successful. It is a fellowship of the
forgiven. (Robert B. Munger)
1490.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. (CS
Lewis)
1491.
If you love darkness, and are satisfied to dwell in gloom and misery, then
be content with little faith; but if you love the sunshine, and would sing songs of
rejoicing, covet earnestly this best gift, "great faith." (Spurgeon)
1492.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it
for change. (Ramsay Clark)
1493.
If we haven't learned to be worshipers, it doesn't really matter how well
we do anything else. (Erwin Lutzer)
1494.
When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and
no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to
take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His
Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace
of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next
step, than it does to preach the gospel. (Oswald Chambers)
1495.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it. (Aristotle)
1496.
Our defeats are but stepping-stones to victory, and his victories are but
stepping-stones to ruin. (Winston Churchill)
1497.
I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have
been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. (CS Lewis)
1498.
If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on
the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou
wilt not loiter. (Spurgeon)
1499.
Never consider whether or not you are of use — but always consider that
"you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His. (Oswald Chambers)
1500.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind
and self-righteousness. (Sir Robert Hutchinson)
1501.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)
1502.
Christians never say goodbye for the last time. (ODB)
1503.
Both the children were looking up into the Lion's face as he spoke these
words. And all at once (they never knew exactly how it happened) the face
seemed to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a
sweetness and power rolled about them and over them and entered them that they
felt they had never really been happy or wise or good, or even alive and awake,
before. (CS Lewis)
1504.
We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus on a much deeper level
than we do now. We should get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on
everything, instead of making our own commonsense decisions and then asking
Him to bless them. (Oswald Chambers)
1505.
I used to think freedom was loving who I wanted and smoking what I
wanted, and living as I pleased. What I discovered was that true freedom is doing
what deep down inside you know you ought to do. True freedom is found in the
grace and love of Jesus. (Anonymous)
1506.
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
(Austin O'Malley)
1507.
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you
have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. (Otto von Bismarck)
1508.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich
Nietzsche)
1509.
Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will
not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. (Calvin
Coolidge)
1510.
The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy is damnation. The
only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers
and perturbations of love is Hell. (Spurgeon)
1511.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what
happens to him. (Aldous Huxley)
1512.
Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we
had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things;
but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds. The things we ask
for are precious, but we do not realize their preciousness until we have sought for
them earnestly. (Spurgeon)
1513.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do
with it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1514.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his
way. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1515.
Rouseau's philosophy continues to survive in the pop-psychology and
"human potential" movements of today, and in the do-nothing school of childrearing, which has given us so many little savages. (Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss
Manners)
1516.
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over wellmeaning people who chew with their mouths open. "I could better eat with one
who did not respect the truth or the laws," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "than
with a sloven and unpresentable person." (Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners)
1517.
As you journey with God, the only thing He intends to be clear is the way
He deals with your soul. The sorrows and difficulties in the lives of others will be
absolutely confusing to you. (Oswald Chambers)
1518.
Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidist children who are most
childish and the stupidist grown-ups who are most grown-up. (CS Lewis)
1519.
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is
difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
(Mother Teresa)
1520.
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. (May
Sarton)
1521.
Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying. (Henny
Youngman)
1522.
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness,
you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and
it's not so bad. (CS Lewis)
1523.
This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In
repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but
you would have none of it...." Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises
to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who
wait for him! O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.
How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will
answer you. (Isaiah 30:15, 18-19)
1524.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834)
1525.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times;
few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J.
Harris)
1526.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not. (Andre Gide)
1527.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and
examine ourselves. (Confucius)
1528.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and
I'm not sad because I have it no longer. (Colette, The Last of Cheri)
1529.
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. (Edward
George Bulwer-Lytton)
1530.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to
the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'
than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up
and be counted at any cost. (Thomas J. Watson)
1531.
Fear God and you will have nothing else to fear. (Anonymous)
1532.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet
for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. (Lao Tzu)
1533.
The angels of God serve Him with songs, not with groans; a murmur or a
sigh would be a mutiny in their ranks. That obedience which is not voluntary is
disobedience, for the Lord looketh at the heart, and if He seeth that we serve Him
from force, and not because we love Him, He will reject our offering. Service
coupled with cheerfulness is heart-service, and therefore true. Take away joyful
willingness from the Christian, and you have removed the test of his sincerity.
(Spurgeon)
1534.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
(Galileo Galilei)
1535.
There are not three levels of spiritual life — worship, waiting, and work.
God's idea is that the three should go together as oe. They were always together in
the life of our lord and in perfect harmony. It is a discipline that must be
developed, it will not happen overnight. (Chambers.)
1536.
Man: a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. (Alexander Hamilton)
1537.
Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity.
Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders
prayer, brings darkness over the soul.... (Oswald Chambers)
1538.
These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is
hateful to Christ, that He will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion
with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him
miserable. Jesus will not walk with His people unless they drive out every known
sin. (Oswald Chambers)
1539.
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report
what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
(William Penn)
1540.
Repentance does not cause a sense of sin — it causes a sense of
inexpressible unworthiness. When I repent, I realize that I am absolutely helpless,
and I know that through and through I am not worthy even to carry His sandals.
Have I repented like that, or do I have a lingering thought of possibly trying to
defend my actions? The reason God cannot come into my life is that I am not at
the point of complete repentance. (Oswald Chambers)
1541.
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn
to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to
remain in your life that is causing the unrest. (Oswald Chambers)
1542.
A godly parent is a child's best guide to God. (ODB)
1543.
In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go,
but no further." His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of His
people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the
heat. (Spurgeon)
1544.
Smite, Lord, smite, for my sin is forgiven; if Thou hast but forgiven me,
smite as hard as Thou wilt. (Luther)
1545.
Psalm 30:5 For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a
lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
1546.
The rainbow is only to be seen painted upon a cloud. When the sinner's
conscience is dark with clouds, when he remembers his past sin, and mourneth
and lamenteth before God, Jesus Christ is revealed to him as the covenant
Rainbow, displaying all the glorious hues of the divine character and betokening
peace. To the believer, when his trials and temptations surround him, it is sweet to
behold the person of our Lord Jesus Christ — to see Him bleeding, living, rising,
and pleading for us. God's rainbow is hung over the cloud of our sins, our
sorrows, and our woes, to prophesy deliverance. (Spurgeon)
1547.
I've learned I must decide to look at sin as an offense against a holy God,
instead of as a personal defeat; to take personal responsibility for [my] sin, depend
on the grace of God; and obey God in all areas of life, however insignificant.
(Jerry Bridges)
1548.
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet me makes gods by
the dozens. (Montaigne)
1549.
History is fables agreed upon. (Voltaire, 1694-1778)
1550.
God does not give us overcoming life — He gives us life as we overcome.
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no
strength. Are you asking God to give you life, liberty, and joy? He cannot, unless
you are willing to accept the strain. And once you face the strain, you will
immediately get the strength. Overcome your own timidity and take the first step.
Then God will give you nourishment.... (Oswald Chambers)
1551.
What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are
actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without
clouds — He does not come in clear-shining brightness.
1552.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring
the deadening effect of a habit. (William Somerset Maugham)
1553.
Losses in business are often sanctified to our soul's enriching. If the
chosen soul will not come to the Lord full-handed, it shall come empty. If God, in
His grace, findeth no other means of making us honour Him among men, He will
cast us into the deep; if we fail to honour Him on the pinnacle of riches, He will
bring us into the valley of poverty. Yet faint not, heir of sorrow, when thou art
thus rebuked, rather recognize the loving hand which chastens, and say, "I will
arise, and go unto my Father." (Spurgeon)
1554.
When thieves robbed Matthew Henry, the English author, he still found
something to be thankful for. He wrote these words in his diary: "Let me be
thankful first, because I was never robbed before; second, because, although they
took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because it was I who was robbed,
not I who robbed."
1555.
Christ's finished work is like wine stored in the wine-vat; through unbelief
we can neither draw nor drink. The Holy Spirit dips our vessel into this precious
wine, and then we drink.... (Spurgeon)
1556.
There hang the blessings on the nail — Christ Jesus; but being short of
stature, we cannot reach them; the Spirit of God takes them down and hands them
to us, and thus they become actually ours. (Spurgeon)
1557.
Hofstadter's Law: The time and effort required to complete a project are
always more than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
1558.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch
Proverb)
1559.
In his book The Pursuit of God, A. W. Tozer wrote, "Has it ever occurred
to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned
to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned not to each other but to
another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred
worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart
nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become unityconscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship."
(ODB)
1560.
If an angel should lay his hand upon us when we are doing evil, he need
not use any other rebuke than the question, "What thou? What dost thou here?"
(Spurgeon)
1561.
To bear the Spirit's fruit don't let sin take root. (ODB)
1562.
The underlying foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is poverty, not
possessions; not making decisions for Jesus, but having such a sense of absolute
futility that we finally admit, "Lord, I cannot even begin to do it." Then Jesus
says, "Blessed are you...." (5:11). This is the doorway to the kingdom, and yet it
takes us so long to believe that we are actually poor! The knowledge of our own
poverty is what brings us to the proper place where Jesus Christ accomplishes His
work. (Oswald Chambers)
1563.
If life knocks you flat on your back, just tell yourself "Things are looking
up!" (Ziggy, Tom Wilson)
1564.
Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a
particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to
keep the Lord before us continually. Our problems arise when we refuse to place
our trust in the reality of His presence. The experience the psalmist speaks of —
"We will not fear, even though...." (Psalm 46:2) — will be ours once we are
grounded on the truth of the reality of God's presence, not just a simple awareness
of it, but an understanding of the reality of it. Then we will exclaim, "He has been
here all the time!" (Oswald Chambers)
1565.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel. (Carl W. Buechner)
1566.
When our lives honor Christ, even silence is eloquent. (ODB)
1567.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at
when you grow old. (Ed Howe)
1568.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should
never remember it. (Pierre Charron)
1569.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity
in love. (Spanish Proverb)
1570.
The true test of our spirituality occurs when we come up against injustice,
degradation, ingratitude, and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us
spiritually lazy. While being tested, we want to use prayer and Bible reading for
the purpose of finding a quiet retreat. We use God only for the sake of getting
peace and joy. We seek only our enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization
of Him. This is the first step in the wrong direction. All these things we are
seeking are simply effects, and yet we try to make them causes.(Oswald
Chambers)
1571.
In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named
a sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he
possesses some degree of holiness. This will be a most comforting thought to
those who are mourning their infirmities, and who ask, "Can I be a child of God
while there is so much darkness in me?" Yes...; for you are spoken of in the word
of God as if you were even now perfectly holy as you will be soon. You are called
the child of light, though there is darkness in you still. You are named after what
is the predominating quality in the sight of God, which will one day be the only
principle remaining.... (Oswald Chambers)
1572.
It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, "That which is last, lasts for
ever." ... though you are naturally darkness, when once you become light in the
Lord, there is no evening to follow; "thy sun shall no more go down." The first
day in this life is an evening and a morning; but the second day, when we shall be
with God, for ever, shall be a day with no evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal
noon. (Spurgeon)
1573.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
1574.
You have to dig deep to bury your Daddy. (PROVERB, PK webpage)
1575.
It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the
choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps
and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the
vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we
willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God? The beatings
will always come in the most common, everyday ways and through common,
everyday people. (Chambers)
1576.
"If any man sin, we have an advocate" (I Jn. 2:1) Yes, though we sin, we
have Him still. John does not say, "If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,"
but "we have an advocate," sinners though we are. All the sin that a believer ever
did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus
Christ, as his advocate. (Spurgeon)
1577.
The Lord's people shall also enjoy light in the hour of death. Unbelief
laments; the shadows fall, the night is coming, existence is ending. Ah no, crieth
faith, the night is far spent, the true day is at hand. Light is come, the light of
immortality, the light of a Father's countenance. Gather up thy feet in the bed, see
the waiting bands of spirits! Angels waft thee away. Farewell, beloved one, thou
art gone, thou wavest thine hand. Ah, now it is light. The pearly gates are open,
the golden streets shine in the jasper light. We cover our eyes, but thou beholdest
the unseen; adieu, brother, thou hast light at even-tide, such as we have not yet.
(Spurgeon)
1578.
No really great man ever thought himself so. (William Hazlitt — 17781830 — British essayist noted for literary criticism)
1579.
We can remain powerless forever ... by trying to do God's work without
concentrating on His power, and by following instead the ideas that we draw from
our own nature. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to
serve Him without knowing Him.(Oswald Chambers)
1580.
Our place of safety is the bosom of the Saviour. Perhaps we are tempted
just now, in order to drive us nearer to Him. Blessed be any wind that blows us
into the port of our Saviour's love! Happy wounds, which make us seek the
beloved Physician.(Spurgeon)
1581.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said
that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and
done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice,
too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget
about success.' (Helen Hayes)
1582.
In 1968 the Olympics were held in Mexico City; my favorite event was
the marathon. The crowd had pretty well gone because the winners had been
declared, but there was still one man out — a man from Africa. He finally showed
up, hobbling around the track with blood pouring from a bandage on his leg. As
he made the final lap, those remaining began to stand. They clapped and yelled
beyond anything the winner had received. After the man finished, he went directly
to the locker room. The press followed him, asking, "Why did you continue in the
race when it was obvious you couldn't win?" He said, "My country didn't send me
7,000 miles to start the race; they sent me to finish. That's what I did." (Howard
Hendricks)
1583.
Most of us can do things if we are always at some heroic level of intensity,
simply because of the natural selfishness of our own hearts. But God wants us to
be at the drab everyday level, where we live in the valley according to our
personal relationship with Him. (Oswald Chambers)
1584.
To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience
the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We
have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can
be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and
you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His
other children. (Spurgeon)
1585.
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
(Sir Thomas Browne, "Christian Morals," 1716)
1586.
Switzerland is known for its scenic mountains and beautiful waterfalls. A
visitor to that picturesque country observed: Some guidebooks name the time
when rainbows may be seen on many of the waterfalls in Switzerland. One day,
when I was at Lauterbrunnen, I went to the famous Staubbach Falls and watched
and waited. Others did the same, and we all went away quite disappointed. The
next day one of my friends said he would show us how to find the rainbow. So I
went again and saw a lovely one, and stood almost in the center of it. Then I
found that not only were sunshine and spray necessary to produce a rainbow, but
also that it could be seen and enjoyed only at a certain point. (ODB)
1587.
Worries go down better with soup than without. (Jewish)
1588.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. (Spurgeon)
1589.
Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know
other people. (Confucius)
1590.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after
the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. (Maurice
Maeterlinck)
1591.
Do not pursue what is illusory — property and position: all that is gained
at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one
fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life — don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last
forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. (Alexander
Solzhenitsyn)
1592.
He who does not prepare for death is more than an ordinary fool, he is a
madman. (Spurgeon)
1593.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
(Winston Churchill)
1594.
If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be
punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God be
just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished. God must change His
nature before one soul, for whom Jesus was a substitute, can ever by any
possibility suffer the lash of the law. Therefore, Jesus having taken the place of
the believer — having rendered a full equivalent to divine wrath for all that His
people ought to have suffered as the result of sin, the believer can shout with
glorious triumph, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" Not God,
for He hath justified; not Christ, for He hath died, "yea rather hath risen again."
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom
Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my
righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but
in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. On
the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen. (Spurgeon)
1595.
Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you. If it is
important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to your mind, it is the very thing
He is detecting in you. You were looking for some big thing to give up, while
God is telling you of some tiny thing that must go. But behind that tiny thing lies
the stronghold of obstinacy, and you say, "I will not give up my right to myself"
— the very thing that God intends you to give up if you are to be a disciple of
Jesus Christ. (Oswald Chambers)
1596.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Voltaire)
1597.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the
truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's
wrath. (Kahlil Gibran)
1598.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. (Norman Vincent
Peale)
1599.
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot
of the time. (Colette, Paris From My Window)
1600.
Our Lord never takes measures to make me do what He wants. Sometimes
I wish God would master and control me to make me do what He wants, but He
will not. And at other times I wish He would leave me alone, and He does not.
(Oswald Chambers)
1601.
If we are consciously aware that we are being mastered, that idea itself is
proof that we have no master. If that is our attitude toward Jesus, we are far away
from having the relationship He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship
where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious
awareness of it — a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey.
(Oswald Chambers)
1602.
Thought to Apply: Before God can deliver us we must undeceive
ourselves. (Augustine)
1603.
Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
1604.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. (George
Sand)
1605.
Love truth, and pardon error. (Voltaire)
1606.
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things — he tempts us
to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the
possibility of being of value to God. He does not come to us on the premise of
tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view, and only the
Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil. (Oswald Chambers)
1607.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
proportion. (Francis Bacon)
1608.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does — except
wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good
in the first place. (Abigail Van Buren, 1978)
1609.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing
them. (Aristotle)
1610.
...those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their
high and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by
their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust. O for more divine holiness of life! (Spurgeon)
1611.
A strong will often conceals a strong "won't." (ODB)
1612.
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things
from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to
move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.
(Oswald Chambers)
1613.
Have you "renounced the hidden things of shame" in your life — the
things that your sense of honor or pride will not allow to come into the light? You
can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone that you would
not like to be brought into the light? Then renounce it as soon as it comes to mind
— renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or
craftiness about you at all. (Oswald Chambers)
1614.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious
men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. (Joseph Addison)
1615.
You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear; to
make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out,
but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering
thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God
has put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter. Bring all your "arguments
and.... every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" regarding the
matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight to you (2 Corinthians
10:5). Your reasoning capacity will come later, but reasoning is not how we see.
We see like children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing. (Oswald
Chambers)
1616.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to
performing daily acts of trivia.
1617.
Life's challenges are designed not to break us but to bend us toward God.
(ODB)
1618.
None are so precious in Jesus' sight as the sinners for whom He died.
When Jesus receives sinners, He has not some out-of-doors reception place, no
casual ward where He charitably entertains them as men do passing beggars, but
He opens the golden gates of His royal heart, and receives the sinner right into
Himself — yea, He admits the humble penitent into personal union and makes
Him a member of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. There was never such
a reception as this!
1619.
You may have pleasure; but when you are merry, sing psalms and make
melody in your hearts to the Lord. (Spurgeon)
1620.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything
wrong. (Baltasar Gracian)
1621.
Temptation says, "Do this pleasant thing; do not be hindered by the fact
that it is wrong." Trial or proving says, "Do this right and noble thing; do not be
hindered by the fact that it is painful." (Anonymous)
1622.
Our faith is really and truly tested only when we are brought into very
severe conflicts, and when even hell itself seems opened to swallow us up. (John
Calvin)
1623.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break
thy word or lose thy self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius)
1624.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy
for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. (Helen Keller, My
Religion)
1625.
If you would reach to something higher than ordinary groveling
experience, look to the Rock that is higher than you, and gaze with the eye of faith
through the window of importunate prayer. When you open the window on your
side, it will not be bolted on the other. (Spurgeon)
1626.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
(Ouida)
1627.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess
player, not the chess piece. (Ralph Charell)
1628.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a
sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of
it, is little different from reproach. (Demosthenes)
1629.
Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would have wine
from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times. The bruiser's
feet must come down joyfully upon the bunches, or else the juice will not flow;
and they must well tread the grapes, or else much of the precious liquid will be
wasted. So we must, by meditation, tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the
wine of consolation therefrom. (Spurgeon)
1630.
The Holy Spirit consoles, but Christ is the consolation. If we may use the
figure, the Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine. (Spurgeon)
1631.
I here present myself, praying to live only in Thee and to Thee. Let me be
as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be
sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either." (Spurgeon)
1632.
Earth should be a preparation for heaven; and heaven is the place where
saints feast most and work most. They sit down at the table of our Lord, and they
serve Him day and night in His temple. They eat of heavenly food and render
perfect service. (Spurgeon, 10/05 a.m.)
1633.
Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image of Thy Son.
(Spurgeon)
1634.
Lord, please keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my
mouth.
1635.
God, give us the desires of our heart — and the desires of your heart.
May these be the same set of desires.
1636.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by
rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in
doubtful cases, though not often. (Samuel Butler, 1612-1680)
1637.
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. (Bernard M. Baruch,
1940)
1638.
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. (The Koran)
1639.
If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should
never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a
catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application
to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of
a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord
for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally,
but mighty through God to do great exploits; (Spurgeon)
1640.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we
do in our opinion of ourselves. (La Rochefoucauld — 1613-1680)
1641.
Integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus — 1913-1960)
1642.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. (Anne Frank,
Diary of a Young Girl, 1952)
1643.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but
to reveal to him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli)
1644.
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is
no road so dangerous. (Spurgeon)
1645.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true
respect for anyone. (Billy Graham)
1646.
God's love is to be enjoyed, not tested. (ODB)
1647.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.(Confucius)
1648.
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear
established. (Francois La Rochefoucauld)
1649.
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to
take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the
greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but
that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as
private. This is my teaching,and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I
am a mischievous person. (Socrates, quoted by Plato, The Death of Socrates)
1650.
The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of selfrealization which leads us to say, "I am my own god." This nature may exhibit
itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common
basis — my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with
all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean — living, moral, and
upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to
the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely,
the nature of man. (Chambers)
1651.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into
hard work. (Peter F. Drucker)
1652.
Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't be repeated.
(Suzan Wiener)
1653.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are
servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every
fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because,
if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded fear. (Thomas Jefferson)
1654.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and
humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (James 1:21)
1655.
Honest criticism is hard to take — especially when it comes from a
relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. (Franklin Jones)
1656.
It really is true to say, "I cannot live a holy life," but you can decide to let
Jesus Christ make you holy. "You cannot serve the Lord ..." — but you can place
yourself in the proper position where God's almighty power will flow through
you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His
wonderful life in you? (Oswald Chambers)
1657.
Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's
people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that
not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are
heaped upon each other..., mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin
there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God's children! Attempt to
multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, "a number
which no man can number," and you will have some conception of the great mass
of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed His blood. (Spurgeon)
1658.
The Christian life is a life characterized by true and spontaneous
creativity. Consequently, a disciple is subject to the same charge that was leveled
against Jesus Christ, namely, the charge of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was
always consistent in His relationship to God, and a Christian must be consistent in
his relationship to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to strict,
unyielding doctrines. People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God
has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted
to Jesus Christ. (Oswald Chambers)
1659.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Helen
Keller)
1660.
These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your
conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the Sermon on the
Mount with your head, you will dull the appeal to your heart. (Oswald Chambers)
1661.
He stands at the door and knocks, and if His people will but open He
rejoices to enter. But in what state is my heart, which is my Lord's garden? May I
venture to hope that it is well trimmed and watered, and is bringing forth fruit fit
for Him? If not, He will have much to reprove, but still I pray Him to come unto
me, for nothing can so certainly bring my heart into a right condition as the
presence of the Sun of Righteousness, who brings healing in His wings.
(Spurgeon)
1662.
Live as if Christ died yesterday and is coming back today. (ODB)
1663.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)
1664.
Sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.(Shakespeare)
1665.
With an enthusiastic love for Jesus difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices
become pleasures, sufferings are honours. (Spurgeon)
1666.
No creature that deserved redemption would need to be redeemed. (CS
Lewis)
1667.
Why should I despair of loving Jesus with a love as strong as death? He
deserves it: I desire it. The martyrs felt such love, and they were but flesh and
blood, then why not I? They mourned their weakness, and yet out of weakness
were made strong. Grace gave them all their unflinching constancy — there is the
same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed abroad such love, even Thy love
in my heart, this evening. (Spurgeon)
1668.
True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of
sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better
still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the
light of His love. (Spurgeon)
1669.
No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see
the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally — as a burnt child
dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been
stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it
— shun it in everything — not in great things only, but in little things, as men
shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very
jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very
watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we
shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning
awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not
sin against Him. (Spurgeon)
1670.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing
and prepared hearer. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
1671.
If salvation can be attained only by working hard, then surely horses and
donkeys would be in heaven. (Martin Luther)
1672.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but
coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain)
1673.
Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing —
it was here first. (Mark Twain)
1674.
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. (Katherine Cebrian)
1675.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
1676.
It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more
blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter.
(Spurgeon)
1677.
Our Lord told us how our love for Him is to exhibit itself when He asked,
"Do you love Me?" (John 21:17). And then He said, "Feed My sheep." In effect,
He said, "Identify yourself with My interests in other people," not, "Identify Me
with your interests in other people." (Oswald Chambers)
1678.
You can stand almost anything if you know it isn't permanent. (Steve
Brown in When Your Rope Breaks)
1679.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and
then choose that way with all his strength. (Hasidic Saying)
1680.
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the
world and as there are days in the life of those people. (Mary S. Calderone)
1681.
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish
you didn't. (Erica Jong)
1682.
The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods
who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. (Cato the Younger —
B.C. 95-46)
1683.
Glorious gospel! which provides everything for the helpless, which draws
nigh to us when we cannot reach after it — brings us grace before we seek for
grace! (Spurgeon)
1684.
If you are debating as to whether or not God can deliver from sin, then
either let Him do it or tell Him that He cannot. Do not quote this or that person to
Him. Simply obey Matthew 11:28, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
laden...."
1685.
There is no education like adversity. (Our Daily Bread)
1686.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity,
and is only pride and ostentation. (William Hutton)
1687.
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it
involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. (Rebecca West)
1688.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude
to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world,
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson — 1803-1882)
1689.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never
laughs. (Aurobindo Ghose)
1690.
I went about in pity for myself; and all the while a great wind was blowing
me across the heavens. (Ojibway saying)
1691.
Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind. (Albert Szent-Gyöorgi
— Hungarian-American Biochemist)
1692.
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. (Theodore Parker)
1693.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid
with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1694.
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of
our consciousness. (Albert Einstein)
1695.
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)
1696.
Jesus says, in effect, "Don't worry about whether or not you are being
treated justly." Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted
from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to
give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge
ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like
this?" If we are devoted to Jesus Christ, we have nothing to do with what we
encounter, whether it is just or unjust. In essence, Jesus says, "Continue steadily
on with what I have told you to do, and I will guard your life. If you try to guard it
yourself, you remove yourself from My deliverance." Even the most devout
among us become atheistic in this regard — we do not believe Him. We put our
common sense on the throne and then attach God's name to it. (Oswald
Chambers)
1697.
If we give our enemy a foothold he will build a stronghold then use it as a
stranglehold. (Lew Gervais)
1698.
Servants of Christ must be masters of themselves. (ODB)
1699.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to
be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (ODB)
1700.
Saying yes to God means saying no to things that offend His holiness. (A.
Morgan Derham)
1701.
Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get. (Josh McDowell)
1702.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some
solace for it. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
1703.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
(De la Rochefoucauld)
1704.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1705.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. (Blaise Pascal)
1706.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always
aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. (Mohandas K.
Gandhi)
1707.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted. (Albert Einstein)
1708.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo
Galilei)
1709.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
living apart. (e e cummings)
1710.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas
Jefferson)
1711.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity. (Albert Einstein)
1712.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man
who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. (Sir Winston Churchill)
1713.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a
profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr)
1714.
We sit down at the door of God's purpose and enter a slow death through
self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our
deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His
Son, as if to say, "Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine." If God can
accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank
Him for breaking yours? (Oswald Chambers)
1715.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to
say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius
is within. (Epictetus)
1716.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for
him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for
the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
— that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. (Cicero)
1717.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier)
1718.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)
1719.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
(Lucille S. Harper)
1720.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you
love and to love the things you despise. (Boris Pasternak — Russian writer, on
Soviet leaders. On this day in 1958, under pressure from Soviet leaders, Pasternak
refuses Nobel Prize.)
1721.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
(Honoré de Balzac)
1722.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment
to the next. (Mignon Mclaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966)
1723.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1724.
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets
real thing, it is irresistible. (CS Lewis)
1725.
He who stops being better stops being good. (Oliver Cromwell)
1726.
The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If
my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him,
namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. And as
soon as I obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. (Oswald Chambers)
1727.
Reason should direct and appetite obey. (Cicero)
1728.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the
ability to say no to oneself. (Abraham J. Heschel)
1729.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite
revenge for insult. (Judge Hall)
1730.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1731.
God will have no strength used in His battles but the strength which He
Himself imparts. (Spurgeon)
1732.
Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less
is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my
entire will. (Oswald Chambers)
1733.
We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again.
Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no
business going back. (Oswald Chambers)
1734.
Treat people as if they are what they ought to be, and you help them to
become what they are capable of being. (Johann von Goethe)
1735.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge
that they will help us. (Epicurus)
1736.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
(Perelman)
1737.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a
different one. — Ivern Ball)
1738.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. (Elvis
Presley)
1739.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (C. G. Jung)
1740.
The gods too are fond of a joke. (Aristotle)
1741.
Saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams, they are but cisterns into which
the living water flows; they are empty vessels into which God pours His salvation.
(Spurgeon)
1742.
We have to remember that our conscious life, even though only a small
part of our total person, is to be regarded by us as a "temple of the Holy Spirit."
He will be responsible for the unconscious part which we don't know, but we
must pay careful attention to and guard the conscious part for which we are
responsible. (Oswald Chambers)
1743.
A word rashly spoken cannot be brought back by a chariot and four
horses. (Chinese Proverb)
1744.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. (Plato)
1745.
Plato was a bore. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
1746.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. (Leo Tolstoy)
1747.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. (Chilo)
1748.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't
cure. (Ross MacDonald — 1915-1983)
1749.
When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me
without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He
chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. Selfpity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose
in the world. (Oswald Chambers)
1750.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.(Mark Twain)
1751.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on
the things you have long taken for granted. (Bertrand Russell)
1752.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying. (Woody Allen)
1753.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
(Adlai Stevenson)
1754.
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. (William Congreve)
1755.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. (Sir Winston Churchill)
1756.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (Thomas
Watson — 1874-1956, Chairman of IBM, 1943)
1757.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. (Edmund Burke)
1758.
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! (Will
Rogers)
1759.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? (Will
Rogers)
1760.
You could not have believed your own weakness had you not been
compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God's
strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. (Spurgeon)
1761.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the
cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
1762.
Most of us live only within the level of consciousness — consciously
serving and consciously devoted to God. This shows immaturity and the fact that
we're not yet living the real Christian life. Maturity is produced in the life of a
child of God on the unconscious level, until we become so totally surrendered to
God that we are not even aware of being used by Him. When we are consciously
aware of being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, we have yet another
level to reach — a level where all awareness of ourselves and of what God is
doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint —
a saint is consciously dependent on God. (Oswald Chambers)
1763.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees
equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol)
1764.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
1765.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates, 1981)
1766.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. (Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962)
1767.
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. (John F. Kennedy)
1768.
Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
1769.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
1770.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. (Mark Twain)
1771.
The promises of God are of no value to us until, through obedience, we
come to understand the nature of God. We may read some things in the Bible
every day for a year and they may mean nothing to us. Then, because we have
been obedient to God in some small detail, we suddenly see what God means and
His nature is instantly opened up to us. (Oswald Chambers)
1772.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
(Abraham Lincoln)
1773.
Nothing conceits like success. (Al Bernstein)
1774.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
(Tom Clancy)
1775.
Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The
only thing we ever learn from is failure. (Wayne Dyer)
1776.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin)
1777.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Wernher
Von Braun)
1778.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
1779.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1780.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
1781.
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is. (Saint
Augustine)
1782.
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. (Dietrich
Bonhoeffer)
1783.
The Bible is the rope God throws us in order to ensure that we stay
connected while the rescue is in progress. (J. I. Packer)
1784.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no
slave who has not had a king among his. (Helen Adams Keller)
1785.
God is subtle but he is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
1786.
The Holy One...requires the heart (The Talmud)
1787.
When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow
that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God
never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
(Oswald Chambers)
1788.
There are three kinds of giving: grudge giving says "I have to"; duty
giving says "I ought to"; thanksgiving says "I want to." (Robert Rodenmayer)
1789.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
(Friedrich von Logau)
1790.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would
not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (Shakespeare)
1791.
A bad habit is like a soft chair — easy to get into but hard to get out of.
(ODB)
1792.
Do not pursue what is illusory — property and position: all that is gained
at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one
fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life — don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last
forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. (Alexander
Solzhenitsyn)
1793.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
(Voltaire)
1794.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food
fight it out inside. (Mark Twain)
1795.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes
of it. (Marcus Aurelius)
1796.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief
(Gerry Spence)
1797.
The deeper our troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us
through all, and preserved us until now. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our
praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, "He hath done great
things for us, whereof we are glad." (Spurgeon)
1798.
You are God's king: reign over your lusts. You are God's chosen: do not
associate with Belial. Heaven is your portion: live like a heavenly spirit, so shall
you prove that you have true faith in Jesus, for there cannot be faith in the heart
unless there be holiness in the life. (Spurgeon)
1799.
A man who is ruler of his passions is master of the world. (Dominic —
Founder of order of preachers, 13th Century)
1800.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David
Thoreau)
1801.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and
those who dare not, are slaves. (George Gordon Noel Byron — 1788-1824)
1802.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and
the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners
and non-learners. (Benjamin Barber)
1803.
This new life will reveal itself in conscious repentance followed by
unconscious holiness, never the other way around.(Oswald Chambers)
1804.
Is what you're living for worth dying for? (ODB)
1805.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with
the song still in them. (Henry David Thoreau)
1806.
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably,
and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.
(Epicurus — 341-270 B.C.)
1807.
If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Sufi wisdom)
1808.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan
Proverb)
1809.
Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be
taught. (Winston Churchill)
1810.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John
Churton Collins)
1811.
Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of
salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit,
and then says, in effect, "Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me,
even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful."
And Jesus says to us, "... I have called you friends...." Remain faithful to your
Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life. (Oswald
Chambers)
1812.
Without God we can't; without us He won't. (Anonymous)
1813.
Take God's promises to heart, but never take them for granted. (ODB)
1814.
God does not tell us what He is going to do, He reveals who He is.
(Oswald Chambers)
1815.
I am defeated and know it if I meet any human being from whom I find
myself unable to learn anything. (George Herbert Palmer)
1816.
In the initial stages it will be a continual effort to abide, but as you
continue, it will become so much a part of your life that you will abide in Him
without any conscious effort. Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever
you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future. (Oswald Chambers)
1817.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they
have to say something. (Plato)
1818.
Noise proves nothing — often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as
if she had laid an asteroid. (Mark Twain — 1835-1910)
1819.
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. (Suzanne
Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976)
1820.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Indian Proverb)
1821.
Believer, go to the throne for a large supply of heavenly salt. It will season
thine afflictions, which are unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart
which corrupts if salt be absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles.
Thou needest much; seek much, and have much. (Spurgeon)
1822.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you
think. (John Burroughs)
1823.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or
who is against it. (Henry George)
1824.
Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many),
increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares,
and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems. (Oswald
Chambers, 12/14)
1825.
Prayer can do anything that God can do. (E.M.Bounds)
1826.
A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. (Shakespeare)
1827.
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care
and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. (Captain J. A.
Hadfield)
1828.
I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't
have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last
day of their life? (Anonymous)
1829.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goal. (Henry Ford, 1863-1947)
1830.
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive
in repose. (Indira Ghandi)
1831.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. (Thomas Fuller)
1832.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of
years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry.
Worry never fixes anything. (Mary Hemingway)
1833.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and
worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. (Dale Carnegie)
1834.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they
don't have any. (Alice Walker, 1944-)
1835.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are
accomplished by diligence and labor. (Menander of Athens)
1836.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever
she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. (Dorothy Parker)
1837.
You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself. (Martin
Rutte)
1838.
Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true,
is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important. (CS
Lewis)
1839.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great
man is the man who makes every man feel great. (G.K. Chesterton)
1840.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. (Laotsze)
1841.
If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the
doctrine...(John 7:17).
1842.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be
undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
1843.
It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly
controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is
in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were
completely controlled by people. (Oswald Chambers)
1844.
With focused attention and great care, you have to "work out" what God
"works in" you — not work to accomplish or earn "your own salvation," but work
it out so you will exhibit the evidence of a life based with determined, unshakable
faith on the complete and perfect redemption of the Lord. As you do this, you do
not bring an opposing will up against God's will — God's will is your will. Your
natural choices will be in accordance with God's will, and living this life will be
as natural as breathing. (Oswald Chambers)
1845.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never happen. (James Russell Lowell — 1819-1891)
1846.
Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. (Albert
Schweitzer)
1847.
Charity sees the need not the cause. (German Proverb)
1848.
We have passed through one more year. One more long stage in the
journey of life, with its ascents and descents and dust and mud and rocks and
thorns and burdens that wear the shoulders, is done. The old year is dead. Roll it
away. Let it go. God, in His providence, has brought us out of it. It is gone...; its
evil is gone; its good remains. The evil has perished, and the good survives.
(Henry Ward Beecher)
1849.
A man who has not suffered, what does he know? (Henry Suso)
1850.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. (CS Lewis)
1851.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter
their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. (William James)
1852.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. (Elizabeth
Bowen)
1853.
Natural devotion may be enough to attract us to Jesus, to make us feel His
irresistible charm, but it will never make us disciples. Natural devotion will deny
Jesus, always falling short of what it means to truly follow Him. (Oswald
Chambers)
1854.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. (Stephen
Stills)
1855.
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. (Tove
Jansson)
1856.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of
your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will
be yourself. (Alan Alda)
1857.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too
sleepy to worry at night. (Anonymous)
1858.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
(Aristotle)
1859.
People fail forward to success. (Mary Kay Ash)
1860.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and
solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice,
it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (Franz Kafka)
1861.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good
things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God
gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have.
Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally
remember that which is the most unfortunate. (Hubert H. Humphrey)
1862.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as
interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls
the interruptions are precisely one's real life — the life God is sending one day by
day: what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at
least is what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the time.
(CS Lewis)