"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go." - Brooks Atkinson

"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair." - T. S. Eliot

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning." - Albert Camus

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." - John Wesley

"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it." - Albert Einstein

There is no allowance whatever in the New Testament for the man who says he is saved by grace but who does not produce the graceful goods. Jesus Christ by His Redemption can make our actual life in keeping with our religious profession. - Oswald Chambers

"Beware of posing as a profound person— God became a baby." - Oswald Chambers

"In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'" - Dave Barry

So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John Ruskin

‎"A burp is spontaneous. A burp is not romantic." - Mona Lisa Vito

"Our lack of initiative in sharing the gospel is directly related to our lack of wonder and hope." - Doug Swagerty

"Do you want to know if your Christianity is genuine? Here is the touchstone: Whom do you get along with? Who are those who criticize you? Who are those who do not accept you? Who are those who flatter you?" - Archbishop Oscar Romero

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.” – Daffy Duck

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” – Gilda Radner

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals" - Dalai Lama

"We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed." - Oswald Chambers

"We all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” - John Lennon

“When things go wrong don't go with them” - Elvis Presley

"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." - Richard Nixon (August 9,1974, Nixon's last night in the White House)

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous...” - Thomas Merton

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (in necessary things unity; in uncertain things freedom; in everything love)" - Marco Antonio de Dominis

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” - Marie Curie

"I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants." - Oswald Chambers

"Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small." - Corrie ten Boom

"Forgiveness is always costly." - Tim Keller

"And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive." - Corrie ten Boom

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.” - Lily Tomlin

“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.” - St. John of the Cross

"If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." - Vince Lombardi

"Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’" - Jesus (Mt. 25:44-45)

“Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” - Thomas Jefferson

"To feel what Jesus feels we must see what Jesus sees." - Doug Swagerty

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.” - Bill Cosby

"We can't recoil from the gospel because our culture doesn't like some of it. We have to love even more." - John Perkins

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” - Jack Handey

"There is never any panic in heaven. God is faithful; His plans do not fail." - Corrie Ten Boom

"Love is all you need." - The Beatles

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin

“If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.” - Oscar Hammerstein II

"[having] pressed grapes of service, we drink life's sweetest wine - the wine of giving. We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving." - Max Lucado

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

"I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.” - Ronald Reagan

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life, having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ." — Francis Drake

"I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people." - Studs Terkel

“Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts” - Saint John Chrysostom

“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.” - Bishop Desmond Tutu

“How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?” - St. Teresa of Avila

“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself” - Shunryu Suzuki

“When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.” - Mother Teresa

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” - Jackie Robinson (April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play in a major league baseball game.)

"When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly, and help others to learn. When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift, and thank God for it." - Bill Wilson

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” - Martin Luther

“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.” - Douglas Adams

"The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son." - Oswald Chambers

“It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' You must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” - Albert Schweitzer

"By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from him who truly suffices him." - Augustine

“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.” - Gracie Allen

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” - Dalai Lama

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” - Emile Zola

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” - Redd Foxx

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him a the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil 2:4-11

“Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending” - Herman Melville

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed." - 1 Pet 2:24

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.” - Bob Hope

“Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.” - St. Teresa of Avila

“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.” - Johnny Cash

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” - Theodore Roosevelt

"I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, 'By the grace of God I am what I am.'" - John Newton

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” - Ronald Reagan

“Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.” - Carlos Santana

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.” - Douglas Adams

“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'” - G. K. Chesterton

“I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoyed than be a success at something I hate.” - George Burns

"How you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?" - Mother Teresa

“My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.” - Billy Graham

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears” - Rudyard Kipling

“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.” - Benjamin Franklin

“I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.” - Red Skelton

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” - Herbert Spencer

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Gandhi

"I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love." - Viktor Frankl

"God does not need to make any fuss about his glory. He is glorious. He simply needs to show Himself as he is, he simply needs to reveal Himself. That is what he does in man, his creature, in whom he wants to be reflected." - Karl Barth

"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'" - Ray Charles

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." - C. S. Lewis

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - Augustine

"All religion ever made of me /Was just a sinner with a stone tied to my feet /It never set me free /It's gotta be More like falling in love..." ♫ - Jason Gray

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can." - Will Rogers

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"We are told that it is perfectly legitimate for believers to suffer grief. Our Lord Himself was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Though grief may reach to the roots of our souls, it must not result in bitterness. Grief is a legitimate emotion, at times even a virtue, but there must be no place in the soul for bitterness." - R.C. Sproul

"It's never just a game when you're winning." - George Carlin

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

"If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?" - Blaise Pascal

"In an attempt to be reasonable, man has become irrational. In an attempt to deify himself, he has defaced himself. In an attempt to be free, he has made himself a slave. And like Alexander the Great, he has conquered the world around him but has not yet conquered himself." - Ravi Zacharias

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss

"An' here I sit so patiently/ Waiting to find out what price/ You have to pay to get out of/ Going through all these things twice." - Bob Dylan

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire." - Thomas Merton

"The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice. Any choice will be the right one.” A. W. Tozer

"Sometimes not doing something is doing something." - Shunryu Suzuki

"Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings!" - Phillips Brooks

“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.” - Yogi Berra

“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace” - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.” - Henry Kissinger

“May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” - George Washington

“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

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” - Audrey Hepburn

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often” - Mark Twain

“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.” - C.S. Lewis

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” - George Carlin

"Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation." - 2 Cor. 6:2

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” - Helen Keller

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Donald Robert Perry Marquis

“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.” - Albert Einstein

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Captain Spaulding

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - G.K. Chesterton

"At times we may feel that we do not need God, but on the day when the storms of disappointment rage, the winds of disaster blow, and the tidal waves of grief beat against our lives, if we do not have a deep and patient faith our emotional lives will be ripped to shreds." - MLK

“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?” - George Carlin

"If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love. If we have the idea that love is characterized as cautious, wise, sensible, shrewd, and never taken to extremes, we have missed the true meaning. " - Oswald Chambers

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..." - Theodore Roosevelt

“Of two evils, choose neither” - Charles H. Spurgeon

“In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.” - Bill Wilson

“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.” - G. K. Chesterton

Striker: "Surely you can't be serious!" Rumack: "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." - Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” - Gandhi

“When we let [freedom] ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at l...ast! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” - MLK

"But when once the light of Divine Providence has illumined the believer's soul, he is relieved and set free, not only from the extreme fear and anxiety which formerly oppressed him, but from all care." - John Calvin

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” - Mother Teresa

“Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.” - Dalai Lama

“Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.” - Ambrose Bierce

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!” - Dennis the Constitutional Peasant.

"You can’t test courage cautiously." - Annie Dillard

"Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated." - Fred Rogers

"Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems." - Oswald Chambers

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.” - A. W. Tozer

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” - Alexander Solzehnitsyn

“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am” - Monty Python

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” - Mother Teresa

"The invariable mark of genius is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." - 2 Cor. 5:16-17