2.11.2010

Quotes of Note

Saint Paul tells us that the church--not the university, the media, or the public schools--is the pillar and support of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15). ~Excerpted from Love Your God With All Your Mind by J.P. Moreland

We are having a revival of feelings but not of the knowledge of God. The church today is more guided by feelings than by convictions. We value enthusiasm more than informed committment. ~1980 Gallup Poll on Religion

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~Plutarch

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~Rene Descartes, "Discourse on Method"

What begins as something you do ends up as something you are. Habit becomes second nature. ~Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

It takes no brains to be an atheist. Any stupid person can deny the existence of a supernatural power because man’s physical senses cannot detect it. But there cannot be ignored the influence of conscience, the respect we feel for the Moral Law, the mystery of first life...or the marvelous order in which the universe moves about us on this earth. All these evidence the handiwork of the beneficent Deity...That Deity is the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ, His Son. ~Dwight Eisenhower

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people lack ownership of an idea, they usually resist it, even when it is in their best interest! ~John Maxwell

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. ~Lillian Hellman

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer, except that which lies outside the will of God. ~Rev. Harry T. Smith

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. ~Blaise Pascal

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