Quotes

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“When you come to a fork in the road….Take it “

” I didn’t really say everything I said “

” It’s deja vu all over again”

When asked what time is was……” you mean now?”

” I usually take a two hour nap from one to four”

Yogi Berra

“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. “

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

John Wooden

“The Law of the teacher, simply stated, is this: If you stop growing today you stop teaching tomorrow.” Dr. Howard Hendricks

To those who claim to follow Christ, “If one-tenth of what you believe is true, you ought to be ten times as excited as what you are.” Sir Walter Moberly

“My deep conviction that one of the reasons we are not getting higher commitment to discipleship in the evangelical community is that we ask people to do things for God.Yet God never asks you to do anything for Him until He fully inform you what He has done for you.” Dr. Howard Hendricks

Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies,

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower-but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“That redefining of morality without a standard (Bible) leaves our society in a death dive because sin is breaking God’s law. Sin is violating God’s moral character. And there’s no where to know that except on the pages of Scripture. And if you don’t believe the Scripture establishes morality, righteousness and unrighteousness, then you have no standard and you have no definition of sin. That’s the real…that’s the real issue in our society today. How do we tell our society about a Savior who will save them from sin when their definition of sin is basically non-existent?” John MacArthur

“The duty imposed upon him to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will ‘preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.’ The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offense, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.” Justice Joseph Story

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:  ’I'm ready accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’  That is the one thing we must not say.  A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or he would be the Devil of Hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.” C.S. Lewis

“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” Benjamin Franklin, 1758

“Many Christians never leave the first principles of the gospel.  Still spiritual infants, they must be bottle-fed the same formula. When confronted at the door by a representative of another sect, they are helpless to give a reason for the hope that is in them.  On the basis of their faith they are speechless; yet on the reasons for their choice of a house or car they can discourse at length. This sinful negligence by even one member of the church causes the whole body to suffer.” Gordon R. Lewis, Decide for Yourself: A Theological Workbook

“One marked difference between the faith of our fathers as conceived by the fathers and the same faith as understood and lived by their children is that the fathers were concerned with the root of the matter, while their present-day descendants seem concerned only with fruit” A. W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

“How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” Benjamin Franklin

“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. … Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament and its best Security.”  Samuel Adams

“A Fatal Tendency of Mankind. Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing. But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. … This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man — in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain.” French economist and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream–the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.” Ronald Reagan

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch

“The wise are mightier than the strong,* and those with knowledge grow stronger and stronger.”  Proverbs 24:5 NLT

“I have lived a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men.” Benjamin Franklin

“Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.”
C.S. Lewis

“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions”  Charles P. Steinmetz

“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the axe.”   Abraham Lincoln

“In order to succeed, your desire of success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby

“Be encouraged: God gives us the spiritual gifts He wants us to have; He puts us in the places He wants us to serve; and He gives the blessings He wants us to enjoy.” Dr. Frank L. King

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833