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| Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost. - Anonymous Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. - John Newton What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. - Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso People who invite trouble always complain when it accepts. - Lane Olinghouse The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you." - Klare Provine An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. - Samuel Johnson It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with it. - Sloan Wilson I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens To have more, desire less. - Table Talk If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Michigan Presbyterian Church The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are? - Bob Talbert There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Unknown The most valuable talent is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jefferson They say TV really is still in its infancy, which helps to explain why you have to get up so often to change it. - Linda Erdman There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel Some people always sigh in thanking God. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. - Albert Schweitzer Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. -- Mother Teresa We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. - John Milton I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.- C. S. Lewis All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke Optimists are nostalgic about the future. - Chicago Tribune A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. - Unknown Person that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Reader's Digest A stumble may prevent a fall. - English Proverb Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - G.K. Chesterton Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg The truth will ouch. - Arnold H. Glasow Until you make peace with whom you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Unknown We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.- A. W. Tozer To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. - Stanislaus I If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton We all have enough strength to bear other people's woes. - La Rochefoucald It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John Gardner Happiness is not a reward-- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-- it is a result. - Robert Green Ingersoll I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. - Martin Luther We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi �There were only two types of candidates on this year�s election (2001): THE WINNERS, and THOSE CHEATED!� Dr. Rene A. Layco As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them. - Charles H Spurgeon Let those that love us, love us. And those that don't, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping!- Irish blessing If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns - Unknown Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. - Sebastien Chamfort A liar needs a good memory. There's nothing so pathetic as a forgetful liar. - Unknown Death is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. - Seneca Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. - Hannah More I want to look at life in the available light. - Unknown Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires; Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires. - Jane Taylor God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.- Mahatma Ghandi |
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