Quotes: Misc. Part 2

The road of good intentions doesn't lead to anywhere.

You better leap off of the ship before you claim to walk on water.

He cannot love you more and will not love you less.

All I was missing, he stood there holding.

Nobody knew his secret ambition was to give his life away.

We can apprehend it, not comprehend it. Our ability to understand in no way affects the truth of it.

We are united by our doubts and separated by our convictions.

We have become "one nation over God"

Gossip the Gospel

It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Have a stewardship perspective, not an ownership perspective.

I don't have Christianity. Christ has me.

Stand up, speak up, shut up. (Deliver the message, deliver it boldly, and just deliver the message)

Our ability to sin creatively is mediated only by our depravity.

The problem is not the high cost of living, it's the cost of high living.

desire realized is sweet to the soul 

- Proverbs 13:19

I do it not to change the world but so that the world does not change me. 

- Mother Therisa

Just because you walk into a stable, it doesn't make you a horse. Going into a church does not make you a Christian.

Life is short
Death is sure
Sin the curse
Christ the cure

Since we lack information, it is better to express ignorance than an undo confidence.

It may be Friday, but Sunday is coming.

God has no grandchildren and no step children.

The web was a neighborhood more efficiently lonely than the one it replaced. Its solitude was bigger and faster. When relentless intelligence finally completed its program, when the terminal drop box brought the last barefoot, abused child on line and everyone could at last say anything instantly to everyone else in existence, it seemed to me we'd still have nothing to say to each other and many more ways not to say it.
--Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, 1995. 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Hanlon's Razor 

If you have nothing to do, don't do it here.

Did you ever notice that we don't have affirmative action in the NBA.

The pathway is narrow, so your mind should be narrow.

Who I am as a man does not depend on Bill Clinton.

Your body has 30 trillion cells. Each cell has 10,000 enzymes. If any one of those enzymes was missing, you would be dead.

I am bleeding full sore, but will arise to fight again.

Any government that can give you everything can take everything.

Talk so that the other person will listen. Listen so that he will talk.

If we all settled for good enough, would anything ever be good enough?

He has a lot of degrees but no temperature.

You cannot see the wind, but you can see its effects.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% what I do about it.

It takes a better husband to be better than none. - Amish saying

Money has never yet made anyone rich. - Seneca, Roman statesman

Money can buy:
medicine but not health
a house but not a home
companionship but not friendship
entertainment but not happiness
food but not an appetite
a bed but not sleep
a cross but not a savior
a good life but not eternal life

When you reach for a heartbeat that isn't there...

Am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
- D. L. Moody

On the other side of every problem is an opportunity.

I'm looking forward to looking back on ...

laws <- politicians <- voters <- public opinion <- media

Never take credit for not falling into a temptation that never tempted you in the first place.

- Billy Graham

"Include your children when baking cookies."

"Local high school dropouts cut in half."

Closets used to be for clothes, not for coming out of.

If you leave Cape Canaveral off by 1 degree, we are not going to walk on the moon, we are going to suffocate in outer space.

Do not love stained glass so much that you do not let your knees get stained.

Eternal security is salvation and salvation is eternal security.

The health of your body is not measured by the absence of germs but by your body's resistance to them.

Religious people do not convert people. People who love people convert people.

Love is always service, but service is not necessarily love.

Heaven is a gift for bad people, not a reward for good people.

If someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.

The great challenge of life is to decide what is important and ignore everything else.

Christ did not die to become our probation officer.

The Bible says we are the salt of the earth. The question is not do we want to be 
salt, the question is will we be salty.

"Eat your heart out" To some people, that wouldn't be much of a meal.

Every now and then I stop and close my eyes. I enjoy the view.

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Lust is the craving of salt by a man who is dying of thirst.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody
Everybody knew that it needed to be done and anybody could do it. Since anybody could do it, everybody was waiting for somebody to do it. In the end, nobody did what anybody could have done because everybody thought somebody was going to do it.

Are you in love? If not, fall in love -- and quick -- because Valentine's day is just around the corner and getting engaged on Valentine's day is really cool.
- Joe Costello, Costello Jewelry radio ad

A gift is fully paid for by the giver. If you pay for something-- even a little for it-- it is not a gift; it is a bargain.

Temptation is a test of your loyalty to God.

Take every thought captive.

Every day 10,000 people die and go to Hell and you don't give a shit. The reason I know is because right now you care more about the fact that I said "shit" than that 10,000 people are going to Hell.

I have two dogs in my bosom and they are constantly fighting. The one that wins is the one I feed.

Frog -- (a few minutes) ------> Prince = Fairytale
Frog -- (12,000 years) -------> Frog = Religion
Frog -- (millions of years) --> Prince = "Science"

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams, author of Dilbert

If buying options is like gambling in Vegas, writing covered calls is like being the house.

There is no point in pointing fingers unless you are pointing to the truth.

There is a bridge to cross the great divide.
There is a cross to bridge the great divide.

The true test of a servant is if I act like one when I am treated like one.

Every problem is the shadow of a revelation of God approaching.

God did not make you to be a human doing, he made you to be a human being.

We have one political party with two heads. - Jim Kirkwood

Eternal life does not begin at death. It is now.

Jesus was Jewish, but only on his mother's side.

- Archie Bunker

What were once vices are now the manners of the day.

Hear something, forget it. 
See something, remember it. 
Do something, understand it.

Life has a way of giving you a chance to practice your weaknesses.

A man calls another man names. He responds "If you give a man something and he does not accept it, who does it belong to?"..."I refuse to accept the names you called me."

I can't stop the birds from flying overhead, but I can stop them from building a nest in my hair.

The Spirit of Truth will guide you. 

- John 16:13

Knock on doors, but do not push them open.

Wilderness is a testing ground. Promised land is place of warfare that needs preparation. The battle is most intense there.

- Deut 8:4 

At the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. - Jesus

No good thing does he withhold from him who's walk is blameless.

You do not receive because you do not ask. You do not receive because you ask with impure motives.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

The person who first used "values" instead of "morality" was Nietche.

I always see both sides of things: the one that's wrong and mine.

It still takes God 21 years to make a man.

When Jesus named Peter (which means "rock"), he knew he would deny him three times.

Perversion comes out of deprivation.

I'd be pulling out my hair if I could just get one hand free.

Just as I am, not as I do.

Why do doctors call what they do "practice"?

Unless you love the truth, you cannot know it. (Pascal?)

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.

- Emerson

We need to be more concerned about God's presence than his presents.

They say there is more than one way to skin a cat. What I want to know is what's the way that everybody knows.

The traditional family is breaking down faster than we can say "significant other."

- Dr. D. James Kennedy

Mercy lives where faith and flesh collide.

Keep working. Millions on welfare on counting on you.

What is the answer to life? All of thee above.

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I've ever met. 

- Abraham Lincoln

You can observe quite a lot just by watching.

- Yogi Berra

If God seems far away, guess who moved.

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots. 

- D.O. Flynn 

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. 

- Bertrand Russell

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the ground with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. 

- William Feather

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times the work. 

- George Bernard Shaw

Clinton should feel our pain, he has caused so much of it.

A poet is content to get his head into the heavens. A mathematician wants to get the heavens into his head; and it's his head that splits. 

- Chesterton

The best argument for and against Christianity is Christians.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A Godly man stands tallest when he is on his knees.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

If Mary had gone to Planned Parenthood do you think Jesus might have been aborted?

What he did, he still does; what he was, he still is.

We need a government that challenges us to our highest and best, not accommodate us at our lowest and least. 

- Sen. John Ashcroft

Between expectation and reality is misery.

We will have all of eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours before midnight in which to win them.

You may not have an ideal house, but you can always have ideals in your house.

In 1996, 435,000 people died of smoking-related illnesses.

9 million tons of ridilin are prescribed each year.

P - preoccupied with other's opinions, trying to win other's approval
R - refusing wise counsel and advice
I - ignoring the power of prayer (James 4:2)
D - depending on self effort (Gal 3:3)
E - expecting unrealistic achievement (Luke 14:11)

A car is a luxury that 92% of the world's population never enjoys.

Growing old isn't so bad, considering the alternative.

Even if your on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

Q: How far can a dog run into a woods. 
A: Half way. After that, he is running out.

People who won't do it criticize those who try.

Champions are just cowards who have surrendered to the power of the living God.

Everyone that Jesus healed died.

All beginnings are difficult.

We all come to Christ with enough heresy to sink a battleship.

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

The mind can only comprehend what the seat can endure.

86% of American's claim to be Christians. If that is true, it's a very busy 14% that is causing all the social ills.

He who would lead must be the servant of all.

Is Jesus a crutch? Absolutely. The problem is most people don't believe that they have a broken leg.

God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He's more impressed
by the obedience I show when I run from it. - Joshua Harris

Does Jesus have power of attorney in your life? Does He have veto power?

Pre-trib: It is normal for a country to recall its ambassadors before waging war.

There is one God and you are not Him.

Anxiety is a symptom of an unsurrendered life.

Before you go to sleep, give all your worries to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.

If someone says something unkind about you, live so that no one will believe it.

Don't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

Even when you have pains, you don't have to be one.

If you are too proud to get on your knees, your prayers standing up won't do much good.

What problem do you have that death wouldn't fix? 

- Rich Mullins

The Enlightenment has burned itself out. 

- Rich Mullins

God wants you to do one thing, Satan wants you to do another, and you get to cast the deciding vote.

Equal rights for unborn women.

You have all the time there is.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

The worker does not do what the manager EXpects,
the worker does what the manager INspects.

Jesus didn't come to make bad men good, He came to make dead men live.

Life is a series of events whereby other people try to take your money. -me (it's been a bad week)

Food has become entertainment.

There are no comfort zones on a cross.

We are going to end up with so much applied Christianity that we won't have any Christianity to apply.

A blowout is better than a slow leak. - Dr. James Dobson

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. 

- Abraham Lincoln

If Cher was cloned, you would have Cher and Cher alike.

The Bible says to deal with the plank in your own eye before you remove the splinter in your brother's eye. But it still says to remove the splinter.

Asked which of his works he would select as his masterpiece, architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the age of 83 replied, "My next one."

God, grant me patience... and I want it right now!

If at first you DO succeed, try something harder. - Ann Landers

1997: Cook county collected $7 Billion in real estate taxes. (more than 35 state treasuries)

I cannot go so fast as I would, by reason of this Burden that is on my back. 

- Pilgrim's Progress

We make no objections against any, notwithstanding all that they have done before they come hither. 

- Pilgrim's Progress

Is the Coelestial Glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazard of a few difficulties to obtain it?

- Pilgrim's Progress

Civilizations rise and fall. Ours is just one more civilization.

If you handle mud with gloves, you end up with muddy gloves, not glovy mud.

You're so old that when you were young rainbows were still in black and white.

The dose makes the poison.

Character is defined by the things that stand in your way.

Feminism is a form of female Marxism.

When asked "Do you really believe that Jesus turned water into wine?", Billy Bray replied,
"Of course I do. In my house he turned whiskey into furniture."

There are two ways to destroy something: one way is to stomp on it, crush it the other way is to let it die

If you really want to do something, you will find a way; if you don't, you will find an excuse.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. 

- G. K. Chesterton

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

- David Lloyd George

Some doctors say that cheerful people resist disease better than grumpy ones. 
The surly bird catches the germ.

Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.

Grace is not a license to sin, it is a liberty to serve.

Don't just do something, STAND THERE.

If two people are the same in marriage, one of them is unnecessary.

The average evangelical gives 2.4% of his income to God and 11.5% to interest payments. 

- Larry Burkett

If you can't surrender money, you have not surrendered. 

- Larry Burkett

The Holy Trinity never meets in emergency session. 

- Adrian Rogers

When it is bigger than I am, so is God.

If you don't have a ministry to each other, you won't have a ministry to anyone else.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Be weak.

You've got rooms to rent upstairs unfurnished.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: believe everything or believe nothing. Both prevent you from thinking.

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. - Jill Briscoe

Don't say "I am the only one" say "I am the first one" and pray for the others.

Keep on your knees and on your toes.

- Jill Briscoe

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

- Eden Phillpotts

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

- Emile Chartier, French philosopher

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.

- Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

- John Sculley

How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.

- Henry Blackaby

Our lives may be the only Bible that some will ever read. We need to be sure they are getting a reliable translation.

We are surprised and confused by difficulties, thinking that the Christian life is a playground, not a battlefield. - Robert McGee, The Search for Significance

The water is free. The well is deep.

No one has time to listen, let alone love. Our children lay wounded on the ground, 
run over by our high-speed good intentions. Is God now pro-exhaustion? Doesn't He lead
people beside the still waters anymore? - Richard Swenson, Margin

In our brokenness we confess, yielding our wrongs. In our humility we forgive, yielding our rights. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

...when all hammers are dust, the anvil will yet endure. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

Economics will solve some of our suffering, but nothing more. And solving our suffering is not the goal of the Christian life; walking in righteousness is. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

God is honored by funnels and dishonored by sponges. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

God blames us only for what we are to blame for, and He took it all away when we asked Him to. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

God created our brains just as surely as He did our hearts, 
and He expects us to use them both for His glory. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

"Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling" -- but the world is shouting and waving its hands. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

At last count, there were about 210 countries in the world. Every year, Americans spend more on trash bags than the individual gross national product of 90 of these countries. Even more astonishingly, we spend more on eating out than the individual gross national product of 200 of these nations. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin, p. 164

He was born with nothing, lived with little, and died with nothing. His simplicity was not accidental. Jesus could have chosen any standard, yet He chose to live simply. 

- Richard Swenson, Margin

Seeing isn't believing. It's only seeing. 

- George MacDonald

Things should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. 

- Albert Einstein

How poor are they who have no patience! 
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? 

- Wm. Shakespeare

Keyboard - The standard way to generate computer errors.
Mouse - An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.

When children grab things from each other and declare, "This is mine," parents try to teach them to share. When these children grow up and grab for themselves, we praise them for being industrious. 

- Art Gish, author

Does the Bible infer that we are to live like A king or like THE king? 

- Rev. Tom Allen

When a man really gives up trying to make something of himself -- a saint,
or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man,...
when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences 
and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God...then he
wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. - Memoir, G. Leibholz, The Cost of Discipleship

If I leave behind me ten pounds for which I have no use I am a thief and a robber. 

- John Wesley

When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.

Prov. 10:19

Woe to the one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.

Eccl. 4:10

But when evil meets no opposition and encounters no obstacle but only patient endurance, its sting is drawn, and at last it meets an opponent which is more than its match. 

- The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer, Chapter 12 Revenge

Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.
- The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer, Chapter 12 Revenge

What if GOD answered our prayers the way we answer His call to service?
What if GOD took away the Bible tomorrow because we would not read it today?
What if GOD decided to stop leading us tomorrow because we didn't follow Him today?

| | | | | | | | | / / / / / / / _ _ _ _ _ _ The domino effect at work.

But the word which we fail to do is no rock to build a house on. There can then be no union with Jesus. He has never known us. That is why as soon as the hurricane begins we lose the word, 
and find that we have never really believed it. The word we had was not Christ's, but a word we had wrested from him and made our own by reflecting on it instead of doing it. So our house crashes in ruins, because it is not founded on the word of Jesus Christ. 

- Bonhoeffer

The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.

The same baby boom generation that so fervently clamors for world peace is filled with people who can't even find peace with the person they once chose to spend a lifetime with.

Americans make up about 7% of the earth's population and consume almost half of its resources.

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
That's why it's called the 'Present'

If you want something done, ask someone who is busy.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. - Hegel

What is necessary for a new disaster is only for memories of the last one to fade, and no one knows how long that takes. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. 

- Jewish proverb

War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. - Linus Pauling

The ancient Greek word for happiness, "eudaimonia," means the formation of character and the development of our potential over a lifetime

Conflict creates the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light. 

- Carl Jung

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. 

- Eliza Tabor

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. 

- Maurice Seitter

Memories and mistakes should be guideposts, not hitching posts.

It is better to be a struggling free man in your own home, on your own property, than to be a well-fed slave. 

- Randall Terry

What is the essence of slavery? You labor for another against your will. We work about 6 months per year for the government. 

- Randall Terry

It is wrong for federal politicians to force us to give to their favorite charities. 

- Randall Terry

Would you be willing to give up your favorite government subsidy if you and your children never had to pay another penny in federal income tax, FICA Social Security tax, and land tax? 

- Randall Terry

Does character matter or just job performance?
"If a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man." 

- G. K. Chesterton

...we must save our strength and will to live our lives to God's purposes, and not fritter them away on personal grievances. 

- Margaret Fishback Powers, author of "Footprints"

Sorry my friends make a bad first impression - but it's an accurate one. 

- Drew Carrey

Lisa: Face it Bart, Sideshow Bob has changed
Bart: No he hasn't; he's more the same now than ever!

If you take all the economists in the country and lay them end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

All great ideas begin as heresy. - George Bernard Shaw

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Diplomacy is saying "nice doggy" until you find a rock.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

The Hebrew word for money, "kesef," comes from a verb 
meaning "to desire" or "languish after something."

The greatest thing one man can do for another man is to pray for him. - Duke Ellington

public school teachers are twice as likely as other parents to send their kids to private schools

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. 
- "Barnaby Rudge", page 607, by Charles Dickens, 1841. 

Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.

A person at the top of a mountain didn't fall there.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. 

- Malcolm Forbes

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass (August 4, 1857) 

Keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- Dave Tyson Gentry

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein (1875-1955)

One day when I was depressed, a friend said "Cheer up, things could be worse". So I cheered up and sure enough things got worse. 

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, now you've really got something!

Life without you is like a broken pencil...pointless. 

- Edmond Blackadder, Blackadder II

Hug your kids at home. Belt them in the car.

What part of "Thou shalt not" do you not understand? - God

I'll meet you at my house on Sunday before the game. - God

God can't renew your mind until he pays the fine for all the time 
you've had it checked out. 

Fast foods lead to fast diseases and a fast demise.

The fact is that except in rare cases, man is not a reasoning being. He is dominated by authority and when facts are not in accord with the view imposed by authority, so much the worse for the facts. They may and indeed must win in the long run, but in the meantime the world gropes needlessly in the darkness and endures much suffering that might have been avoided.
- Dr. W. H. Bates

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946)

There are only two classes of mankind in the world - doctors and patients.
- Rudyard Kipling

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.
Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage.
Cartoonist: What you call your auto mechanic.

The law could promise life to me,
If my obedience perfect be;
But grace does promise life upon
My Lord's obedience alone.
- Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

"If the courts are free to write the Constitution anew, they will, by God, write it the way the majority wants; the appointment and confirmation process will see to that. This, of course, is the end of the Bill of Rights, whose meaning will be committed to the very body it was meant to protect against: 
the majority. By trying to make the Constitution do everything that needs doing from age to age, we shall have caused it to do nothing at all." 
- Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. 
- Ashleigh Brilliant

To simplify complications is the first essential of success. 
- George Earle Buckle

People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 
1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time.
2. It's interesting, but not important.
3. I always said it was a good idea.
4. I thought of it first.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Never confuse motion with action. 
- Ernest Hemingway

Things you wish you could say
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How about never? Is never good for you?
I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
No, my powers can only be used for good.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. 

- Calvin Coolidge

Today's relativistic environment, pluralism no longer means tolerating competing ideas. It means forced neutrality. According to this view, no one should express any idea that could offend someone else. 

- Chuck Colson

Sea changes are always incremental. A small incursion on somebody else's rights -- somebody nobody sympathizes with. Today it's their backyard. But one day, it may be yours or mine. 

- Chuck Colson

We are deterred not by the mountain we climb but by the grain of sand in our shoe.

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life. 

- Deut. 30:19

What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bi-lingual
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Tri-lingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language? An American

1634, Boston, The carpenter who built the first stocks in Boston is the first to occupy them. His bill for 1 pound, 13 shillings is deemed to be profiteering by the elders, who sentence him to half an hour in the device.

I may be a nut, but I'm screwed onto the right bolt.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American Anthropologist

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

The chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg.

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. 

- Abraham Lincoln

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

We cannot move faster than the one we are following. - John Ortberg

"Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. 

- Thomas Paine

Distracted by wants and dulled by thrills, Americans find it all too easy to tolerate the veiled constraints of totalitarianism. 

- Berit Kjos

We must obey God rather than men. - Acts 5:29

Lessons from the persecuted Church. While the world unites in a common quest for an anti-Christian solidarity, Christians can rejoice in a spiritual unity that no government can sever. Those who are "born again" into God's family share one Father, one Shepherd, one Hope, and one eternal Kingdom. But the light of that Hope tends to shine far brighter in a Chinese prison cell than
in an American city where all kinds of distracting lights dim our eyes to the glory of God.

- Berit Kjos

"Even though we [blacks] make up 12% of the population, 
we supply 33% of the abortion industry's business." 
- Reverend Johnny Hunter, national director of the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN)

"He comes across as a pretty agreeable , personable, almost charming guy." 
-NBC's Katie Couric, after conducting an interview with Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber. 

"stating the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." 

- George Orwell

95 percent of the kids on Ritalin today are boys.

- Chuck Colson

He who is unaware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

- Richard Whately