Quotes
last update-- 9/29/99
This is a quote page. The views expressed are not necessarily the views of the author. If you have any good quotes please submit them through my reader's response. I appreciate your help.
Some of these quotes are deathly serious and some are just for grins. I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference. The funnier quotes tend to be more toward the bottom of the page.
) No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
---John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
) "Hope" is knowing the truth and acting on it.
---Bodie Theone, "The Gates of Zion"
) The strongest faith is born of doubt.
---Richard Baxter
) Where ever the greatest good is possible there, also, is evil possible to the same extent.
---modified proverb
) To be at home in the world you must care and be cared for.
---Milton Mayeroff, "On Caring"
) Nothing passes door nor windows save moonlight, starlight, and the sound of wind passing.
---The Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
) If you can't get it, make it look good.
--- Frank Wacholtz--referring to playing goalie and dealing with life
) Their can't be a fake without the real thing existing somewhere.
---F. W.
) I can't loose that which is not mine.
---F. W. -- referring to his life
) Distance is mutual be it emotional or physical... it is impossible to get close to someone without the reverse being true.
---F. W.
)It is incredibly difficult for your body to reside in one place and your heart in another.
---Kristen Hicky
) Watch yourself, because you yourself are being watched.
---F. W.
) When God is known He appears paradoxal to our reason.
---Soren Kierkegaard
) The essence of religion is what you do for those who can do nothing for you.
---Dr. Art Allen (HPU)
) If God lived on Earth people would throw rocks at his windows.
---Old Jewish Proverb
) If God is not God of all then God is not God at all.
---Anonymous
) A man with an obssesion has very little sales resistance
---C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
) What one wants... that you can't have. What one does not want...that, you can have.
---F. W.
) The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safty from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
---Emerson
) It is not necessary to drink up the ocean in order to learn that the water is salty.
---Irenaeus
) If you take away someone's dream you leave them to live a nightmare.
---Summer Herrington
) Look into the mirror occasionally... to see who is really there.
---F. W. ---The Portal
) God doesn't make junk.... But He sure does buy a lot of it.
---Summer Herrington
) We cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments
---C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
) Sometimes you enjoy something more after the fact than the actual experience.
---Dr. Wallace Roark (HPU)
) Theology is grammer.
---Martin Luther
) Sin is like a foriegn weed planted in the grass field of humanity. It's not supposed to be there
---Oscar Koolmann
) I don't know why God created this world, but at least He stepped in and played the sane rules as the rest of us.
---H. Wheeler Robinson
) Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps his mouth shut.
---Proverbs
) If you only preach things you aren't guilty of, you'll soon run out of material.
---Dr. Robert Smith (HPU)
) Happiness is a by-product
---Dr. Wallace Roark (HPU)
) To stub your toe is human. To curse about it is not.
---F. W.
) A man is not an action but the sum of his actions
---F. W.
) If voting could change something it would be illegal.
---anonymous
) He who comes with notes written down carries the day.
---Galbraith
) I guess brownie points can sometimes be redeemed for hugs.
---Becca McDonald
) The darkness hides two kinds of deeds... Those of great courage and those of great cowardice.
---F. W.
) Sometimes you stare hopelessly into the eyes of destiny... only to find her staring right back.
---F. W.
) The greatest risk of all is not to take a risk at all.
---Reader's Digest.
) When you have your 50th wedding anniversary, no matter what age you are, you are old.