Quotes
- “First God made idiots. That was for practice so he could make school boards.” - Mark Twain
- “Ability is what you’re capable of doing…
Motivation determines what you do…
Attitude determines how well you do it.” - Unknown - “A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.’” - James Thurber
- “All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.” - Carl Sagan
- “And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.” - A. E. Housman - “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” - Niels Bohr
- “A true friend shares freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” - William Penn
- “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” - George Washington
- “Beware the man of one book.” - Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- “Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.” - Sarah Schambach
- “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” - Albert Camus
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
- “Everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved.” - Kierkegaard
- “Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.” - Andrew Vachs
- “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley
- “Faith cannot be reduced to a private sentiment, which, perhaps, is hidden when it becomes something uncomfortable; rather, it implies coherence and witness in the public realm in favor of man, justice and truth.” - Pope Benedict XVI
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” - Japanese Proverb
- “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” - William Arthur Ward
- “For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.” - H. L. Mencken
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” - C.S. Lewis
- “Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” - Mark Twain
- “He thought he was capable, at the most, of saying simple things in complicated ways.” - Laurens van der Post, A Story Like The Wind. ISBN 0-15-685261-6
- “Honour, my good Armand, is often cruel and seldom human. He is a godlike taskmaster, and we who call ourselves men are all of us his slaves.” - Sir Percy Blackney, a character in El Dorado by Baroness Orczy
- “If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will–that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings–then we may take it it is worth paying.” - C. S. Lewis
- “If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people?” - Unknown
- “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
- “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!” - Rudyard Kipling
- “If you can’t go over, you must go under.” - Yiddish Proverb
- “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” - Leonardo da Vinci
- “I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I’m not any more.” - Dicey in Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voight
- “I know God wouldn’t let anything happen I couldn’t handle. I wish God didn’t trust me so much.” - Mother Theresa
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.” - Lech Walesa
- “In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” - Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- “In the days before political correctness went insane, people used to call a spade a spade, but they also used to give you a hand up when you fell over.” - Paul Drain
- “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” - Herman Hesse
- “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.” - Mother Teresa
- “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
- “Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man’s job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.” - Tom Clancy
- “Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” - O. Henry
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
- “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert Heinlein
- “Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.” - John MacNaughton
- “Middle age is halfway between your age and one hundred.” - Unknown
- “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” - Anne of Green Gables
- “No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.” - Max Beerbohm
- “No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.” - Minot Simons
- “Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.” - Marcus Aurelius
- “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of 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
- “Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.” - Freeman Teague, Jr.
- “No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.” - Edgar Watson Howe
- “Old timer, n.:
One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization.” - unknown - “One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.” - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1165
- “Only two things are infinite — the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.” - Albert Einstein
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius
- “Physics is the search for where logic in the universe ends and new logic recreates itself daily through the seeming randomness of the Creator” - Quoted by Vincas, scource unknown
- “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” - Stephanie Lucas
- “Religion is a good to be embraced and defended–not an evil to be put up with. No one speaks of tolerating chocolate pudding or a spring walk in the park. By speaking of religious ‘tolerance,’ we make religion an unfortunate fact to be borne–like noisy neighbors and crowded buses–not a blessing to be celebrated.” - Rev. Thomas D. Williams L.C.
- “Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.” - Victor Hugo
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Sir Winston Churchill
- “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” - Andrew Jackson
- “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt
- “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” - George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- “The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.” - President Grover Cleveland on vetoing a bill appropriating money to aid drought-stricken farmers in Texas
- “The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” - William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- “The state which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person — every person — needs: namely, loving personal concern.” - Pope Benedict XVI
- “There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.” - Louisa May Alcott in Little Women
- “The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.” - Bruce Cockburn
- “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.” - Samuel Johnson
- “Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.” - St. Camillus de Lellis
- “To infer watchmaker from watch, you needn’t know exactly what the watchmaker had in mind; indeed, you don’t even have to know that the watch is a device for measuring time. Archaeologists sometimes unearth tools of unknown function, but still reasonably draw the inference that these things are, in fact, tools.” - Elliott Sober in his 1999 presidential address for the American Philosophical Association
- “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao-tse
- “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” - Taylor Hanson
- “Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.” - St. Augustine
- “We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” - Walker Percy
- “We tend to get what we expect.” - Norman Vincent Peale
- “We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” - Rutherford D. Rogers
- “What is a sacrament? It is a thing which not only does what it symbolizes but symbolizes what it does.” - Mr. Mark Shea
- “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill
- “What we acquire without sweat, we give without regret.” - American “Proverb”
- “When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.” - Abraham Kuyper
- “When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the
final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him, because he loved us!’” - Congressman Henry Hyde - “When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You’re stunned, but you cannot hear enough.” - Gawyn in Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
- “You may never reach a solution, but you’re never absolved from the responsibility of trying.” - Former Representative Millicent Fenwick, N.J.
- ““Then the boy’s father cried out, ‘I do believe, help my unbelief!’”” - Mark 9:24
- “Vanity it is, to wish to live long, and to be careless to live well.” - Thomas A Kempis
- “In short, by suppressing generality and universal law, you suppress liberty; and what you have left is nothing but that amorphous impulse surging out of the night which is but a false image of liberty.” - Jacques Maritain
- “Abortion, contraception and other attacks on motherhood cannot achieve equality because they undermine the premise that women and men are equal. Only if we assume that women, in their natural state, are less able than men to make valuable contributions to society, will we insist that women must be corrected, by chemicals or by surgery, to allow them to claim the equality which nature has denied them.” - Melinda Selmys
- “[T]he temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in various forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. The struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus’ Kingdom with any political structure, is one that has to be fought century after century. For the fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria.” - Pope Benedict XVI
- “The Ten Commandments do not enshrine our highest values. They enshrine our lowest values. For it is the bare minimum of decency and common sense to say, “At the very least, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t commit adultery, have some respect for your parents, honor your Creator, etc.”” - Mark Shea
- “If, as the editors of Nature claim, our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution, then the opinion that our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution is itself just the product of evolution.” - Michael Egnor
- “If you’re killing mosquitoes to save people from the West Nile virus, you can count on secular environmentalists to lay down in front of the vapor truck, claiming some potential side effect that might result from the spray, but if birth control deforms fish — backed by the proof of an EPA study — and threatens the drinking supply, mum will be the word.” - George Harden
- “The problem with science is not that the naturalistic approach might occasionally be inadequate. The problem is that science would never know any better. This is science’s blind spot. When problems are encountered, theological naturalism assumes that the correct naturalistic solution has not been found. Non-natural phenomena will be interpreted as natural, regardless of how implausible the story becomes….” - Cornelius G. Hunter, Science’s Blind Spot: Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, Brazos Press, 2007, pg. 44-45
- “Americans are finally beginning to recognize the fatal self-interest at the heart of Planned Parenthood, and the essential lie on which it’s built: While it pretends to be neutral on life and death questions, it only makes big money when large numbers of babies die.” - Alan Sears
- “You don’t hang on to a belief if it doesn’t hold up in real life.” - Ms. Karen Shablin
- “As cosmopolitan urbanites, even the conservative among us like to think we are more tolerant, more liberal-minded than backwoods red-state America. And maybe we are. But perhaps this is only because it is easy for us to tolerate neighbors we do not know.” - Paul Gage
- “In our culture, it’s become accepted that men, by their nature, are brutes, jerks or buffoons, while women, by theirs, are loyal, smart and admirable. Men, bad. Women, good. That’s the underlying worldview of the majority of the entertainment, education and even public policy (laws) that surround us. ” - Ms. Candice Watters
- “The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” - W. B. Yeats - “Scientism’s dismissals are … self-refuting.
Those dismissals are also vacuous, as if affixing the label non-science to an argument tells us anything meaningful about the strength of the argument. The “it isn’t science” response to contemporary design arguments is neither a reasonable nor a particularly stimulating reply. In such cases, the mathematical/empirical approach has degenerated from a way of thinking into a way of stopping thought, a Procrustean bed for chopping off and discarding whatever doesn’t fit within its narrow confines. ” - Benjamin D. Wiker and Jonathan Witt - “Which religion, whose adherents accept the tenets of that religion as the truth about God, does not regard adherents of other faiths as holding imperfect theological notions? If religious belief is important, then to accept more perfect beliefs is to be more perfect.” - David Klinghoffer
- “freedom of religion is much more than the freedom to worship; it is the freedom to act according to that belief in the service of others.” - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
- “This does not mean that we should never take action to prevent evil, or should sit back and wait for God to do something. It does mean that we should not panic, or become needlessly anxious, or jump to rash conclusions, which may cause more harm than good.” - Melinda Selmys
- “He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” - C. S. Lewis, _The Screwtape Letters_
- “The fact that there is a great divide between what education ought to be and what it actually is suggests that there is someone who is benefiting from the status quo.” - Ms. Melinda Selmys
- “How can I explain these things, so obvious, and yet so invisible to those who think that “it’s all about sex”? Difference of sex makes a difference, but what kind? Perhaps I should leave it at this: To a man, women seem to glow in more hues than men do. In different ones too. The spectrum is wider, the world has more color, because of their presence in it, especially the presence of the beloved. Of course there are certain things which a normal man prefers to do with other men, like playing tackle football. Yet the very light and air seem to change when a woman leaves the room, and all men know it. Obviously this fact is connected with her bodily presence, but it isn’t about imagining her naked.” - J. Budziszewski aka Professor Theophilus
