I love Quotes because quotes provide great bits of wisdom in often relatively small packages that are easy to remember and recall in times of prudent need. I will update this page regularly, so be sure to check back often. To that end, I gladly share some of my favorite quotes with you now (in no particular order). Enjoy!
“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
–Abraham Lincoln
“I know that the Lord is always on the side of right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I—and this nation—should be on the Lord’s side.”
–Abraham Lincoln
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent… These United States of America can never be destroyed from forces outside its borders. If America falls, it will fall from within. Brought down by apathy. When good people do nothing, anarchy reigns.”
–Abraham Lincoln
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
– Thomas Paine
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.“
– Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot live without Books.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“I think, therefore I am.”
- René Descartes, Le Discours de la Mèthode, 1637
“I am, therefore I think.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think that I think, therefore, I think that I am.”
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
“I think I am. Therefore, I am . . . I think.”
- George Carlin
“I don’t think, so, therefore I’m probably not.”
- anonymous
“I think, therefore I am. But I’m micromanaged, therefore I am not.”
- Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip, 1997
“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
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
–C.S. Lewis
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”
–C.S. Lewis
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
–C.S. Lewis
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
–C.S. Lewis
“The Instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred– like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope.”
–C.S. Lewis
‘If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?’”
–Saint Augustine
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
—Mark Twain
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
—Victor Hugo
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
—Saint Augustine
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
—Alexander Pope
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.
—Anonymous
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
—Benjamin Franklin
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
—Mark Twain
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
—Arabian Proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
—Scottish Proverb
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
—William Penn
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
—Mahatma Gandhi
History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died.
–Whittaker Chamber
Chaos and uncertainty are market opportunities for the wise.
–Tom Peters
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
–William Penn
“Many Americans are in the market for what I call “do-it-yourself God kits.” These kits enable them to feel good about themselves without making objective moral demands. They promise valuable knowledge without forcing the adherent to confront questions of truth. In other words, it’s a religious system perfectly suited for the spirit of our age.”
–Charles Colson
“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
–James Madison
“…there is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
–Ronald Reagan
“Lonely is the human heart until it finds itself in thee”
–Saint Augustine
“When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.”
– Abraham Kuyper
“Failure to submit to God results in a plethora of problems for man which affect every stratum of his existence: sociological, psychological, economic, physical, and spiritual. Man out of sync with God is man out of sync with man and all the rest of creation”
–Tony Newby
“You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that caused it.”
–Albert Einstein
“Circle the wagons, have a group grope and share your ignorance”
–James D. Strauss
“Experience is a gift earned by the opportunity and exercise of free will.”
–Matthew Skaj – 12/30/04
“Ultimately it is faithfulness, not success, that is God’s measure of our service.”
–Millard Erickson
“If you want to reach the world, you have to sit in the smoking section.”
–Neil Cole (who tried to start a “Christian Coffee House”, then realized that the people he wanted to reach already had a coffee house and maybe he should just go there.)
“The Holy Bible – Rated “R” for scenes of lust, betrayal, violence, adultery, murder, genocide, infanticide, suicide, disobedience and even the destruction of the world.”
–Author Unknown
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
–Mark Kleiman
“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why Not?’”
–George Bernard Shaw
“For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find one who’s hacking at the roots.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Aligning Christians with one political party in effect reduces Christianity to politics. But God and His will stand apart from and above politics. When politics starts informing the church, the church has lost its power.”
–John Fischer
“Knowledge is power.”
–Francis Bacon
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway”
– John Wayne
“The evidence of God’s presence far outweighs the proof of His absence.”
–Unknown
“Merry mall-driven, competitive-present swapping, overindulgent-consumerism, winter holiday.”
–Jeff Parker
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
–John Greenleaf Whittier
God drives a Plymouth. It says so in the Bible:
“And He drove them all out in his Fury”
–Unknown
“I cannot love Christ if I cannot love every soul for which Christ died.”
–St. Francis of Assisi
“With God all things are possible. Through God all things happen.”
–Matthew Skaj
“The art of politics today is not to compromise, but to demonize.”
–Brian Fahling
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”
–Unknown
“The church is a community of astonished hearts.”
–Robert Capon
“Essential fellowship means telling the truth all the time.”
–John Fischer
“This generation is marked by people desperate for understanding and community. One way or another, they will find it.”
–Marc Newman
Truth
The truth is incontrovertible.
Panic may resent it,
ignorance may deride it,
malice may distort it,
but there it is.
–Winston Churchill
HOUSE OF COMMONS
May 17th 1916.
“One of the greatest challenges facing any ministry, no matter what its form is, has to do with what do you define as success… we’ve got to break the [current] mold … which says that success is about church attendance, and church budgets, and church programs, and church staff, and square footage and buildings. Jesus didn’t die for any of that stuff. He died to see people’s lives completely transformed so they try to be more like Him every moment of every day.”
–George Barna
“If we’re really concerned about reaching the world for Christ, we have to bring the church—which is the people of God—to permeate society. You can’t tie it to a building. That’s where we started. We went to buildings, but it was about community. It was Christ coming upon preexisting community and redeeming it where it was.”
–Dallas Willard
“A computer without Windows is like chocolate cake without mustard”
–Unknown
“As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”
–George Mason 1787
“I believe the church is a family of families. One way we have gone astray is that we see the church as a corporation that breaks us into individual groups. We have something for this group and something for that group and we are breaking families apart when we get to the church house. We’re expecting church programs to disciple our children rather than that happening in the home in the context of the family.”
–Voodie Baucham
Ruth Bell Graham, wife of international evangelist Billy Graham, shares the true account of a young college student from India by the name of Pashi who once told her, “I would like to believe in Christ. We of India would like to believe in Christ. But we have never seen a Christian who was like Christ.” Ruth Graham says that when she consulted Dr. Akbar Haqq about what might be the best response to Pashi’s challenge, Haqq answered decisively, “That is quite simple. I would tell Pashi, ‘I am not offering you Christians. I am offering you Christ.’”
–Decision, 10/2000, p39
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.”
–G.K. Chesterton
“The enemy is in front of us. The enemy is behind us. He is to the right and to the left of us. He can’t get away this time!”
– General Douglas McArthur
“The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only”
– A. W. Tozer
“Democracy cannot be transplanted, especially not at the point of a gun.”
– Charley Reese
“How foolish to go on adding sin to sin, increasing the hardness of the heart, increasing the distance between the soul and Christ, and all the while fondly dreaming of some enchanted hour in which it will be more easy to yield to the divine call and part with sin”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it.”
– Ignatius
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fights with all the odds against you with only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is not hope of victory at all, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
– Winston Churchill
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”
–Marcus Aurelius
“Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.”
–Unknown
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
– Mark Twain
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
–Cicero
“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”
–Unknown
