QUOTES
“Words best find their meaning in context”--Unknown
“Strong preaching takes care of 90% of your counseling”--Dr. K. Gillming
“I was a failure as a father because I won thousands to the Lord and lost my own
son”--Billy Sunday, on his deathbed (his son was unsaved)
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody
to thank”--Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Apple (Computers) long ago discovered that caring people are the driving force
behind any innovation or advancement”--MacWorld, May ‘90, p. 315
“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the
current”--T. Jefferson
“Don’t find fault; find a remedy”--H. Ford
“A winner is one who gets up once more than he is knocked down”--Anon.
“Many Americans live their entire lives wondering if they’ve ever done anything
for their country. Fortunately, Marines will never have that problem"--Ronald
Reagan
“Doctors bury their mistakes, Lawyers send theirs to jail, we send ours to
hell”—Unknown Preacher
“The Word of God is static in its grammar, dynamic in its message”--Chip Fields
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never . . .”--Winston
Churchill, in his 1941 address to
“It’s not the things I don’t understand that bother me; it’s the things I
do!”--Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) on the Bible (in Dare to Discipline, James
Dobson, p. 12)
“Give us a child until he is seven years old and we’ll have him for
life”--leaders of the Catholic Church (in Dare to Discipline, James Dobson, p.
172)
“I doubt if we could hire a man [at BBC] today unless he possessed a bachelor’s
degree from an accredited institution and was willing to work toward a
master’s.”--G.B. Vick (1969) in A History of Baptist Separatism, B.V. Bartlett,
p. 69.
“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim
reaper.”--Convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris, just before being executed in
“Our values are not for sale”--A National Boy Scout spokesman, on why they won’t
bow down to an economic boycott
by the (
brought on because the Boy Scouts discriminate against gays (gays “make bad role
models”)
"Once you've lost your integrity, the rest is a piece of cake"--J.R. Ewing of
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"They can take away your freedom, but they cannot take away your
attitude"--Unknown Prisoner of War
"Don't commence swimming until you hit the water"--J.D. Clampett
“Disaster comes by way of the mouth"--Mao Zedong, worshipped as a god
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It
is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the
soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose
coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."--Anon.
“Deliberately depriving a child of a father is unforgivable"--Dr. Laura
Schlesinger
"If you walk past a substandard act without correction, you have just set a new
standard"--LTC Robert Pidgeon
"Stand for nothing and you will fall for everything"--Dr. James Barta
"When you want genuine music - music that will come right home to you like a bad
quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky...just smash your piano, and
invoke the glory-beaming banjo!" --Mark Twain
“In the measure that we love the Gospel, so let us place a strong emphasis on
the languages. For it was not without reason that God wrote the Scriptures in
two languages, the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. That
language which God did not despise but rather chose above all others for His
Word is the language which we also should honor above all others. It is a sin
and shame that we do not learn this language of our Book, especially since God
has now provided us people and books, and gives us all kinds of things which
both help us with this task and at the same time stimulates us to do
this”--Martin Luther, 1524 (from F. Rienecker, Linguistic Key to the GNT,
Zondervan,
"When you leave this life for a better home someday, The only thing you'll take
is what you give away"--Grandpa Jones in "Fallen Leaves"
“The collective effort of a team is greater than the sum total of the individual
efforts”—Anon.
“God feeds the birds…but He doesn’t throw it into the nest”—Anon
“David picked up five stones…but he only used one”—Anon
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every
passing ship”--General Omar Bradley
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare"—Mark Twain
“Anyone who has ever used a condom or birth control knows when life begins”—Peggy Noonan