"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