Bible verses:
"Do not put out the Spirit's fire" – 1 Thessalonians 5:19
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength." – Philippians 4:12-13
"Do everything in love" – 1 Corinthians 16:14
"He who is not with Me is against Me" – Matthew 12:30 (Jesus Christ)
"For I know the plans I have for you – plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." – Jeremiah 29:11-13
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding" – Proverbs 9:10
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Thoughtful quotes:
"You must make your choice. Either this man [Jesus] was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse." – C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis
"Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively... Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – MLKJ
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." – MLKJ
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." – Thomas Jefferson
"Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living... just kind of going through the motions with no meaning." – Bethany Hamilton
"I don't need easy, I just need possible." – Bethany Hamilton (Soul Surfer)
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” – Winston Churchill
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." – Olin Miller
"Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances." – Susan Boyle
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" – Shakespeare (As You Like It)
"Brevity is the soul of wit." – Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence,
But never tax’d for speech."
– William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
"I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move."
– Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses)
“I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.” – Rumi
"It is simply impossible to love those whom you do not personally and intimately know. Instead, you rather love your idea about who you think they are as opposed to who they are in reality." – Kevin Harris
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis
"In this universe even that which is called evil, well ordered and kept in its place, sets the good in higher relief, so that good things are more pleasing and praiseworthy than evil ones. Nor would Almighty God, 'to whom,' as even the pagans confess, 'belongs supreme power,' since he is supremely good, in any way allow anything evil to exist among his works were he not so omnipotent and good that he can bring good even out of evil." – St. Augustine of Hippo
"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, its not the gospel you believe, but yourself." – St. Augustine of Hippo
"Our emotions are a terrible leader but a great follower" – Keith Molberg
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university." – Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Einstein (disputed)
"A little storm, but GOD is bigger no matter how big it is." – A friend
"O Gracious and holy Father,
give us Wisdom to perceive thee,
diligence to seek thee,
patience to wait for thee,
a heart to meditate upon thee,
and a life to proclaim thee,
through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord."
– St. Benedict
"What would happen if we all just truly – I'm talking about all religious stripes here – started praying for the peace of this city and then actually started putting some action behind that?" – Winnipeg Police Chief Devon Clunis
"I'm pretty sure a child is as much a human being 5 minutes before birth as 5 minutes after birth." – MP Stephen Woodworth
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." – Agnes Repplier
“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” – Warren W. Wiersbe
"The unexamined life is not worth living" – Socrates
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." – Soren Kierkegaard
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived." – Soren Kierkegaard
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself." – Soren Kierkegaard
"Neglected beauty is much more interesting than beauty that is too cared for."
– Andrea Bocelli
"Yelling is extremely destructive to a relationship. You think you're communicating at the time, but... the effect is completely the opposite." – Cassie (Have Dreams Will Travel)
"Like, no matter what effort we make to be accepted, we'll still just end up on the roof, feeling like a couple of losers." – Jackie Hoffman (Spy School)
"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit." – William Penn
"Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." – Jonatan Mårtensson
"Keep your mind wide open, but don't let your brains fall out." – Unknown
"He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody"
"Don't worry, be happy"
"Mere admiration of beauty is not love."
"God gives us love, someone to love he lends us."
"No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep."
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My favourite quotes from the brilliant book Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
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Funny quotes:
"Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum" – The Artful Dodger (Oliver Twist)
"Who's your friend? Or is that your butt?" – Gloria (Madagascar 2)
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!" (Dr. Strangelove)
“Anybody can make allegations – but where are the alligators?” – Richard J. Daley
"Redundancy is the unnecessary use of either needless, tautological, pleonastic, superfluous or unnecessary text, by which one repeats, in duplication, the same, identical, aforesaid things over and over and over and over and over again, beyond what would be needed or required to explain, or make comprehensible, the intended or signified meaning of that which one wishes to convey. Usually, it is often common in redundancy to repeat, sometimes with different phrasing or words, the same idea or reasoning, thus restating one's thoughts, sometimes paraphrasing oneself and effectively saying the same thing twice, or double, or thrice, or three times, or triply so, or a small handful of times, or any number of excessive, unnecessary restatements greater than zero (none)." – Uncyclopedia
