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The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Jou idees sal nie werk as jy dit nie ook doen nie.

Unless you do it, your ideas won’t work.

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.

Mother Teresa

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.” Corrie ten Boom

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

If God commands something, that is the highest evidence that we can do it.

Charles G. Finney

Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer. ~Ed Cole

Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

If you do nothing, nothing will happen. If you do something, something will happen, but not necessarily what you intended.

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

“When I change the way I look at things, the things I look at change.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

Montaigne

“When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.” Walter Hilton

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.”

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

“That’s inches away from being millimetre perfect.”

Ted Lowe

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

Ad in the “Missoulian” by Orange Street Food Farm

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”

Al Gore

“Except for his car, he’s the only man on the track.”

Murray Walker, Sportcaster

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

“My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair.”

Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative

I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”

Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

“Danger Slow Men At Work”

Road sign in Brunei

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

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

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

“Man shots neighbor with machete.”

Miami Herald, headline

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

“While sitting in a tavern, someone hit my nose from behind.”

Reason given for insurance claim.

“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.

“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.

“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”

Stuart Pearce

“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

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme