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Jesus alone IS; the rest IS NOT.

Therese of Lisieux

“The greatest glory of a free born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.”

William Havard

We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Kind words make good echoes.

Unknown

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Thomas Watson

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

Man is born broken; he lives by mending. The Grace of God is the glue.

Eugene O’Neill

Better poor and humble than proud and rich.

Proverbs 16:19

“Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.” Bishop Charles H. Brent

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. ~Dwight L. Moody

The church has no greater need today than to fall in love with Jesus all
over again

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

“Faith enables us to move through the storms carrying our calm with us.” J. Holmes

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it.  God will waste nothing.

Phillips Brooks

“It is impossible to comfort men’s hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.” William Booth

God’s never missed the runway through all the centuries of fearful fog.

“God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.” Otto Dibelius

“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

“Okay, everyone, now inhale… and then dehale!”

Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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

Lady Diana Cooper to Queen Elizabet

“I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.”

Tom Lasorda, former Dodger manager on World Cup soccer tournament.

“I say no to drugs, but they don’t listen.”

Marilyn Manson, Singer

“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.

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

Ron Atkinson

“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

Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

The team has come along slow but fast.

Casey Stengel

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

“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

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

Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

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

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

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

The atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives…