Quotes and proverbs

"People say I take the gospel too seriously, but do they really think that on judgement day Jesus Christ will say, 'Len you took me too seriously'?" Leonard Ravenhill

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." Aristotle
 
"The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest." Democritus

"Remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again: Neither died He for thy sins, that thou shouldest live still in them: neither cleansed He thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again: but that thou shoudest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not the flesh. And be dilligent lest through thine own negligence and unthankfulness thou lose this favour and mercy again" William Tyndale, A Prologue to Romans

Here's a good new one: "Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko." John Loeffler

"You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts."

"Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." and "An error does not become truth by means of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it." Ghandi
 
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." Mark Twain (although an athiest)

"Experts may be useful, but anyone who claims a thorough knowledge of his subject has failed to understand its potential." Mike Tawse (good definition of: "if anyone thinks he knows something, he doesn't yet know as he ought."

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." and "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." and "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." H.L. Mencken
   
"He is a fool who thinks he can put off repentance until it is convenient." Dr.James McDonald

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner

"There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."-- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

George Washington put it best "It is better to be alone than in bad company"

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."-- Saint Augustine, bishop f Hippo

"Looking back over our lives, your Grandfather and I noticed that it was the work we did after we were tired that helped us get ahead in our lives." - Grandma

"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon."

"From perusing the utter lack of grammatical structure and spelling ability in these comments, I can only conclude that many of them are functionally illiterate and most likely incapable of engaging in thoughtful analysis of any complex passage of text." Mike Adams, Health Ranger

"I'm such a strong supporter of free speech that I even support the free speech of those with whom I disagree -- and that's the only true measure of whether you really support free speech." Mike Adams
 
"The ideas are too complex for the "instant gratification" generation that thinks you win arguments by shouting down your opponent rather than supporting your position with sensible reasons." Mike Adams

"We all got too comfortable and too lazy, and too many of us forgot how to go after our dreams in the way our American ancestors and immigrants once did." Mike Adams

"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch." ??

No man is ready to see Jesus when he dies if he does not see Jesus while he lives. - Francis Motta

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" Thomas Paine

"When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
 
The Goebbels principle: "The Big Lie repeated often enough can convince the stupid masses."

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratitude that makes us happy."

"When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest " - Abraham Lincoln

"History is a joke played by the victors on the vanquished in front of an audience that dares not laugh." Michael Rivero

"He is a fool who thinks he can put off repentance until it is convenient." Dr.James McDonald

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner

"There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. "  John F. Kennedy

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher

"Abstinance education is not about saying no. It is about saying yes to God, yes to Jesus, yes to self-discipline, self-control and the delay of self gratification. Without these three virtues, there can be no lasting success in life."

"Aspire to be Inspired before you Expire."

If you want your dreams to come true; the first thing you have to do is "WAKE UP" from Kim Perez

"It is man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of Life." Henry Ward Beecher

Never make a hasty permanent decision over a temporary situation. Bro. Greg Roberts.

I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God's hands ,that I possess.---Martin Luther, German reformer and Theologian

"The supply of truth has always been in excess of the demand." - Josh Billings

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."-- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

THE LIFE PHILOSOPHY OF SOME: 'When perfect "theory" is against you, argue the (so called) "facts". When the facts are against you, argue the theory. When both the facts and theories are against you...just deny and defend and argue and fight, regardless of whether you make your bed with the Devil and the truth be damned in the process".

George Washington put it best "It is better to be alone than in bad company"

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."-- Saint Augustine

"Looking back over our lives, your Grandfather and I noticed that it was the work we did after we were tired that helped us get ahead in our lives." - Grandma

"Ridicule is one of man’s most potent weapons."

"From perusing the utter lack of grammatical structure and spelling ability in these comments, I can only conclude that many of them are functionally illiterate and most likely incapable of engaging in thoughtful analysis of any complex passage of text." Mike Adams, Health Ranger

"I'm such a strong supporter of free speech that I even support the free speech of those with whom I disagree -- and that's the only true measure of whether you really support free speech."  Mike Adams

"The ideas are too complex for the "instant gratification" generation that thinks you win arguments by shouting down your opponent rather than supporting your position with sensible reasons." Mike Adams

"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch." 

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest"  Thomas Paine

"When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The Goebbels principle: "The Big Lie repeated often enough can convince the stupid masses."

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratitude that makes us happy.

"Show me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are."

"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." --Groucho Marx

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere." Henry Ward Beecher

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ. George Whitefield

The Christian life is not adding Jesus to one’s own way of life but renouncing that personal way of life for His and being willing to pay whatever cost that may require. John MacArthur

"The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy." John Piper

"In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell." ~ William Booth (founder of Salvation Army)
 

"Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment."  J.C. Ryle

"...The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing, but our culture applies for curses and rejects blessings. This will be the tragic legacy of far too many Christians." Doug Phillips

"The world doesn't persecute people that know what Christianity teaches~ that is a well-rounded knowledge to know what Christians believe. I repeat you don't get persecuted when you know what Christianity teaches. You get persecuted if you believe it and live it out." Pastor Gary Hendrix

God is love but love is not God. ~ Mark Driscoll

"Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than the truth itself." -- Irenaeus,... AD 180, Against Heresies, Book I, Preface Jan Boshoff

Those who are IN Christ are free from the bondage of sin - those who go on sinning are slaves of sin and do not know Jesus.

Jesus knew something many do not recognize today. Communication with God is vital to fulfill God's will in our lives. (To put it simple, Jesus prayed a lot!:) Noah Pinto

A PASSION FOR JESUS WILL GREATLY THIN YOUR SOCIAL CALENDAR!!!! THOSE CARRYING TORCHES ARE SELDOM WELCOME IN THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS!!! FIND YOUR PEACE IN HIM ALONE. ALL ELSE SHALL THEN BE A BLESSING. Larry Beckett

"Show me a professing Christian of whom all men speak well, and I will show you a man who is probably unfaithful to His Lord. J. Gresham Machen

It’s one thing to believe in God, it’s another thing to believe God. Jesse Morrell

It is biblical for Christianity to be called heresy - Acts 24:14. The truth is heresy to those who believe that heresy is the truth.

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" (Erasmus of Rotterdam).

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a theif cannot find a policeman. Barbara Gage Bonacorsi

"The way to do a great deal, is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all, is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.’’

"If you love Christ but little, you will hate error but little. If you do not love the truth at all, you will not hate error at all." ~CH Spurgeon

Making the gospel of Jesus Christ an unavoidable issue for as many people as possible all around the world & just around the corner. ~ Jesse Boyd, Full Proof Gospel Ministries

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~ Flannery O'Connor

"It would be a mockery of Jesus to ask Him to save us from sins we have no intention of quitting." Pastor Gary Hendrix

"The Amish way of life, for example, may not look high-tech and cool, but it doesn't explode in your face and irradiate your whole country, either. And the Amish do just fine without vaccines, too (and they have near-zero rates of autism, by the way)." Mike Adams

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great - Zig Ziglar

"Silence is not always golden, sometimes it's just plain YELLOW (speak up for Jesus!!)"

 "Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you." ~Martin Luther

No man is more at odds with his own best interests than he who lives contrary to the Word of God. - JLW

There is a delusion that is universal. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it,and the truth is the truth even if no one believes it. Christian Boshoff

"Praying women, whose prayers like those of Hannah, can give to the cause of God men like Samuel, do more for the Church and the world than all the politicians on earth."  E.M. Bounds

"It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it." A.A. Hodge

For many folks, a conclusion is simply the place where they got tired of thinking. Jeff Rogers

"He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever." Tillotson

Leadership requires courage to stand alone for the truth when everyone else falls away. K. P. Yohannan

If Hell was to be the doom of your greatest enemy--would you not try to prevent it? What if it should be the doom of your brothers, your sisters, your husband, your wife, your father, your mother! Can you admit the possibility, without being determined to leave no means unused, which would be likely to prevent so fearful a calamity? - James Smith

"One can be so proud of his doctrinal soundness that the Holy Spirit cannot convict him of the unsoundness of his life." - William Law

The life you're living is the life you're teaching... Melissa Cherry heard this at camp

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you." Zig Ziglar

Everything is funny as long as it is happens to somebody else. Will Rogers

"Good books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot (President of Harvard for over 40 years)

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number" - Edith Armstrong

The most dangerous person at your church is the apparently smart guy who is unteachable. - Erik Raymond

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy C.T. Studd

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"An error does not become truth by means of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it."  Ghandi

"Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."  Ghandi

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. " Aristotle

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha

Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everybody else! Margaret Mead

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.  Eli Siegel (source: positivity)
 
"It does not matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes." Stalin

"The Bible had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion, the divine inspiration of God." —John Wesley

"He who rides a tiger cannot dismount." James H. Howard

"Religious people are always profoundly disturbed when they discover that they are not, and never have been, true Christians." - Sinclair Ferguson

The reason so many people find it so hard to be content is that they are unthankful, and they usually see the past better than it really was, the present worse than it really is, and their unfulfilled desires as better than they really are. (mine, modified from a skeleton quote)