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"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