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“Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.” Georges Lefevre

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger.  It is the heart that makes a man rich.  He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

So often we overlook the important while attending to the urgent.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning. Martin Luther

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

God’s time may not be my time, but He is always right on time

Life is a quarry,
out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Moenie veiligheidsreels per ongeluk leer nie.

Don’t learn security rules by accident

“It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.” John Calvin

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

“A godly man is a praying man.”

Thomas Watson

In an action film you act in the action, in a drama film you act in the drama.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau…

The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.

David Garcia

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”

Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.

“We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.”

Vlade Divac, NBA basketball player

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

“Mando Machinery Corporation is the undisputed leader in Korea automotive pants industry.”

Press Release from Korean firm

“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”

Neil Hamilton, BBC2

They misunderestimated me…

George W Bush

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872

It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human…

George W Bush

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

“Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding.”

Mickey Rivers, baseball player

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor