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Om tot gevolgtrekkings te spring is ‘n gevaarlike oefening.

Jumping to conclusions is a dangerous exercise.

“We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.” A. W. Tozer

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

Jim Rohn

Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future. Faith is having the courage to dance to it today.

God stands fast as your rock, steadfast as your safeguard, sleepless as your watcher, valiant as your champion

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

“Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.” H.A. Ironside

God is a rich and bountiful Father, and he does not forget his children, nor withhold from them anything which would be to their advantage to receive.

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”

Albert Schweitzer

There is no safer place for your hopes and dreams than in the loving hands of your faithful Father.

Leslie Ludy

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

The direct experience of God is grace indeed, and basically there is no one to whom it is refused.

God is here.  Wherever we are, God is here.  There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

Let us see God before man every day.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

How many grandparents would give their lives to save their grandchildren but won’t give up their style of worship to reach them?

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

The best answer to fear is to have a firm grasp of what it means to be accepted by God.

John Gunstone

“I don’t think we learned a lesson; I think it was a learning experience for us.”

Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, after game 4 of the 2001 NBA finals, on being asked by NBC reporter Jim Gray if LA had learned a lesson from what happened the previous year in Indiana

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull’s team chemistry being overrated.

“We didn’t lose, we weren’t beaten, we just came in second.”

U.S. commentators, after Canadian Donavon Bailey won the 100 metre gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister…

Margaret Thatcher

It is impossible to transmit speech electrically. The ‘telephone’ is as mythical as the unicorn.
Professor Johann Christian Poggendorrf, Germany physicist and chemist, 1860

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”

Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”

Ron Atkinson

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

“Now, the only thing that remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem.”

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

“We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.”

Parish Magazine

“The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet.”

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.

“Did people build this, or did Indians?”

Tourist question at Mesa Verde National Park

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails

Associated Press

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President

Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound.

Ad in the “Missoulian” by Orange Street Food Farm

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Henny Youngman