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“It is possible to do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.”

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

Margaret B. Runbeck

“The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.” W. T. Richardson

What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.

“It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.” Thomas Merton

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

Sometimes we’re pushing on the door we want God to open, while his sign says “Pull.”

Martha Bolton

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.

“Don’t go through life, GROW through life.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

“The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.” A. W. Tozer

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with chopsticks. It looks so easy till you try it.

Without God we can’t. Without us He won’t.

“The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.”

Joseph Stowell

“If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” Billy Graham

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

“The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas.”

Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster

“Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.”

Frank Broyles, College football coach

“The FA are still optimistic about England’s bid to stage the World Cup in twenty thousand and six.”

Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman

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

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

If you’re going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

“I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.”

Milos Forman, Film director

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

George W Bush

“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.

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

David Garcia

No audience will ever be able to take more than ten minutes of animation…

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

“Guys aren’t able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game.”

Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

“I don’t know all the certain words to word it.”

Vanilla Ice, Rap Star, on why he hired a ghostwriter for his autobiography

“The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others.”

Gerry Brown

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

John Wayne, Actor

“A brain scan revealed Andrew Caddick is not suffering from a stress fracture of the shin.”

Jo Sheldon