Quotes: Some of my Favorite

Forbid that we should ever consider the holding of a commission from the King of Kings a sacrifice, so long as other men esteem the service of an earthly government as an honor. I am a missionary, heart and soul. God Himself had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. A poor, poor imitation I am, or wish to be, but in this service I hope to live. In it I wish to die. I still prefer poverty and missions service to riches and ease. This is my choice. 

- David Livingstone

I know my form is something odd,
but blaming me is blaming God.
If I could create myself anew,
I would not fail in pleasing you.
- Merrick (The Elephant Man)

Man by himself is priced.
Judas sold himself for thirty pieces, not Christ.

If you could look into my heart, you wouldn't stay and listen to me for 5 minutes. But before you get up and go, let me tell you that if I could look into your heart I wouldn't waste 5 minutes of my time trying to teach you.

- J. Vernon McGee

I don't believe in the existence of atheists.

The Christian Church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

- Charles Clayton Morrison

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
- Dr. Seuss, near the end of his life

If anyone ever seeks the Truth, he will be mocked.
If anyone ever finds the Truth, he will be isolated.
If anyone ever tells the Truth, he will be killed
  so that everyone else can live a lie in Peace.

If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said 3,000 years ago, so still it must be said, "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether." 

- Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph:
"THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gilding
Lies here, food for worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believed) appear once more,
In a new,
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
By the AUTHOR"

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives  everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a price upon its goods; and it would  be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. 

- Thomas Paine