Quotables

"Where our work is, there let our joy be."
- Tertullian

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
- Laurence J. Peter

¶"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."
- George Burns

New England preacher Phillips Brooks was known for his calmness and poise. His intimate friends, however, knew that he, too, suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him pacing the floor like a caged lion. "What is the trouble, Dr. Brooks?" asked the friend. "The trouble is," replied Brooks, "that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't."

"To believe in God is not just to love life, but to work so that there is life."
- Jon Sobrino

O Lord, We pray for a cure.
You send us healing.
We pray for continued life,
You give us new life.
We pray death will not come,
You overcome death.
We pray in anguish,
You weep with us.
We pray in fear,
You teach us to laugh.
We pray for ourselves,
You give us each other.
We pray for miracles,
You fill us with love.
We pray for the future,
You shower today with blessedness.
Thank you, Lord. Amen.

"Life in the Spirit can never be private because that Spirit is uncontainable. It is an opening energy that circulates freely through creation, bringing one hand into another, the flower from the seed, the living from the dead."
- Tilden H. Edwards

"There is no human being who does not carry a treasure in his soul, a moment of insight, a memory of life, a dream of excellence, a call to worship."
- Abraham Heschel

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
- Martin Luther

"Christ, who, being the holiest among the mighty, and mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hands empires off their hinges and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still govern the ages."
- Jean Paul Richter

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also, Christ ... is truly hidden."
- C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory"

"It is my firm faith that we can conquer the world by truth and love."
- Ghandi

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- F. P. Jones

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
- Henry Louis Mencken

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."
- John Wooden

Update for Feb 09

“The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.”
- Larry Hardiman

My life can sometimes be summed up by the bumper sticker that says: "Give Me Patience, Lord. RIGHT NOW!"

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
- Mark Twain

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
- Blaise Pascal

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will really be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
- Albert Schweitzer

"The toughest task is to live with unexpected, unwanted answers."
- William Willimon

"Faith is not something to grasp; it is a state to grow into."
- Mohandas Gandhi

"It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside."
-  Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

If you think you misjudge the future, take comfort:

"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." -
-  MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard of Oz.

"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married."
-  Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax." "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
-  Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.

 "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

"The worst things are never the last things."
- John Claypool 

"Healing is possible ... even when a cure is not."
- Bill Moyers

 "Understand that you may believe; believe that you may understand."
- St. Augustine

"The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
- Maggie Kuhn

"God tends to confound, astonish and flabbergast. A Bethlehem stable, a Roman cross, an empty garden tomb. We might as well reconcile ourselves to the fact that God's truth often turns up in ways we don't expect."
- Sue Monk Kidd 

"Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection."
- Watchman Nee

Quotables for Oct 08

Updated Feb 2009