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There is more healing joy in five minutes of worship than there is in five nights of revelry.

A.W. Tozer

“To follow the Savior is to participate in salvation, to follow the light is to perceive the light.” Irenaeus

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

It is comforting to know that the God who guides us sees tomorrow more clearly than we see yesterday.

“Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.” Henri Nouwen

“The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God.”

John the Short

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”

William Wallace

Happiness can exist only in acceptance

Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal. Steve Kumar

“There are only 2 reasons everyone is not a christian: 1) They do not know a Christian or… 2) They do.” Author Unknown

“We don’t follow him in order to be loved, we are loved so we follow him.” Neil Anderson

To love God is something greater than to know him

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

God warns us that seeking our own brand of contentment apart from Him is futile, for “the bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.”

Marsha Crockett

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of himself.

Mother Teresa

“I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan is also busiest.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

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

“Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.”

Ron Pickering

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn

“After the tea break, staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining board.”

Sign in a British office.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

“Elephants Please Stay In Your Car.”

Safari park sign

Oh – I’m so sorry, I didn’t recognize you without your…

Lady Diana Cooper to Queen Elizabet

“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

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

Ron Atkinson

“Man shots neighbor with machete.”

Miami Herald, headline

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

One has to expect the level of violence will either stay where it is or go up or…

Donald Rumsfeld

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

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

“Bobby Gould thinks I’m trying to stab him in the back. In fact I’m right behind him.”

Stuart Pearson

“I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.”

“Danger Slow Men At Work”

Road sign in Brunei

“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.”

Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

“Can you hear me? Squeeze once for yes and twice for no.”

Police detective questioning a wounded officer

“Some people say that one’s personality is reflected off of their car… Well, I have no car.”

Anon

“Reports are sketchy, but we have heard that in the first heart transplant operation in Belgium, both patient and donor are doing fine.”

Radio news announcer